Dr. Duanqing Pei is a research

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who specializes in regenerative medicine. Originally from a small agricultural college in southern China, Dr. Pei went on to complete his graduate work at and obtained his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the

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before becoming a faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1996. He joined the medical faculty at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 2002 and became the head of the pharmacology department soon after. In 2004, Dr. Pei moved to the newly formed Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health and took on the position of Deputy Director General. In the spring of 2009, he was promoted to Director General. Dr. Pei's most notable work is the discovery of

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's effect on the induction of

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by around 100–1000 fold. He is currently the director of the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health.

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* http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=induced-pluripotent-stem-cells-ips-vitamin-c-antioxidant {{DEFAULTSORT:Pei, Duanqing Stem cell researchers Living people University of Michigan alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization