Fabin Han

Biography

Dr. Fabin Han is the professor and director, The Institute for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Shandong University/ Affiliated Hospital, China. Dr. Han graduated with his degrees of MD in 1984 and MPH in 1989 from School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Shandong University, China. In 2006 he got his PhD in human molecular genetics through University of Ottawa, Canada. In 1997-1999, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in molecular genetics at Texas A & M University, USA and then moved to Canada and worked as research associate in neurogenetics program at University of Ottawa, Canada in 2000-2006. From 2007-2010, he worked as research scientist in Stem cell Research program in University of Wisconsin at Madison, and then as senior research Scientist and program manager at Neurodegeneration Centre, Johns Hopkins University, USA. In 2011, he moved back to China to set up his research lab to do genetics and stem cell research in translational medicine. He has been working to identify the disease-causing genes and explore the stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease and other neurological diseases. He is currently working on generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) from patients with Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease to study the molecular mechanisms and iPS cell-based therapy for these diseases. He has published many research papers in Journals of Neurology, Cytotherapy, Frontiers in Aging neuroscience, Stem cells, Movement disorders, Journal of Human Genetics and Oncology Reports. He is the member of International Stem Cell Research, American Society of Human Genetics, and Society for Neuroscience, USA. He is also the committee members of Chinese Neurorestoratology, Chinese Medical Doctor Association and Chinese Stem cell Engineering, Chinese Medical Association. He is the Reviewer for Cell transplantation, scientific reports, Stem cell & Translational Medicine, Stem cell research & therapy, Neural Regeneration Research and Journal of Neurorestoratology.