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Chen Gao, PhD

Asst Professor (F3)

Pharmacology, Physiology, & Neurobiology | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • BS: Nankai University (Biology)
  • PhD: University of California, Los Angeles (Molecular Biology)
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Peer Reviewed Publications

Gao, Chen; Song, Ningjing; Wang, Yibin 2025. A New GRK2 Inhibitor for Heart Failure. JACC. Basic to translational science, 10 2, 218-220

He, Mengying; Tay, Woan Ting; Song, Ningjing; Liu, Tian; Ren, Shuxun Vincent; Zhu, Cansheng; Onubogu, Nkechi; Biler, Ozgu; Tan, Jia En; Keezer, Caitlin; He, Xingyu; Pham, Anthony; Sheng, Shuyuan; Ding, Hao; Lin, Junxin; Wang, Lingjun; Wang, Yigang; Hu, Xinyang; Wang, Yibin; Gao, Chen 2025. Cardioprotective role of RBFox1 in myocardial infarction-induced heart failure. Cardiovascular research, ,

Saleem, Muhammad Zubair; Liu, Tian; Song, Ningjing; McReynolds, Jayme; Gao, Chen 2025. Myocardial damage post short-term self-administration cocaine usage in rat. Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology plus, 13 , 100475

Wang, Meng; Liu, Zhao; Ren, Shuxun; Zhu, Jinyun; Morisawa, Norihiko; Chua, Geok Lin; Zhang, Xuewen; Wong, Yun Ka; Su, Liping; Wong, Ming Xiang; Yang, Jieping; Jens, Marc Titze; Li, Zhaoping; Sun, Haipeng; Wang, Yibin; Raul, Christoph D; Shah, Sanjiv J; Gao, Chen; Liu, Yunxia 2025. BCAA catabolism targeted therapy for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Theranostics, 15 13, 6257-6273

Zhu, Jinyun; Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin 2025. Minimally Invasive Aortic Regurgitation Surgery: A Mouse Model of Volume Overload-Induced Cardiac Remodeling by Aortic Regurgitation. JACC. Basic to translational science, 10 10, 101348

Bi, Feifei; Gao, Chen; Guo, Hongchao 2024. Epigenetic regulation of cardiovascular diseases induced by behavioral and environmental risk factors: Mechanistic, diagnostic, and therapeutic insights. FASEB bioAdvances, 6 11, 477-502

Culler, Kasen L; Sinha, Arjun; Filipp, Mallory; Giro, Pedro; Allen, Norrina B; Taylor, Kent D; Guo, Xiuqing; Thorp, Ed; Freed, Benjamin H; Greenland, Philip; Post, Wendy S; Bertoni, Alain; Herrington, David; Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin; Shah, Sanjiv J; Patel, Ravi B 2024. Metabolomic profiling identifies novel metabolites associated with cardiac dysfunction. Scientific reports, 14 1, 20694

Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin 2024. A New linc(-RNA) Between NFAT/MEF2 and Cardiac Hypertrophy. Circulation research, 135 3, 450-452

Gao, Chen; Xiong, Zhaojun; Liu, Yunxia; Wang, Meng; Wang, Menglong; Liu, Tian; Liu, Jianfang; Ren, Shuxun; Cao, Nancy; Yan, Hai; Drucker, Daniel J; Rau, Christoph Daniel; Yokota, Tomohiro; Huang, Jijun; Wang, Yibin 2024. Glucagon Receptor Antagonist for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Circulation research, 135 5, 614-628

Gao, Chen; Zhu, Jinyun; Song, Ningjing; Wang, Yibin 2024. Tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 7: a new member of the E3 ligase family in cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiovascular research, 120 16, 1987-1988

Liang, Jue; Wang, Xiaoyu; Ortiz, Francisco; Shishodia, Gauri; Liu, Tian; Gao, Chen; Williams, Noelle S; Chuang, David T; Wynn, R Max; Ready, Joseph M 2024. Bicyclic Inhibitors of Branched-Chain α-Keto Acid Dehydrogenase Kinase (BDK) with In Vivo Activity. ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 15 11, 1899-1906

Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin 2023. The Emerging Role of Circular RNAs in Cardio-Oncology. JACC. Basic to translational science, 8 6, 699-701

Huang, Jijun; Lee, Josh Z; Rau, Christoph D; Pezhouman, Arash; Yokota, Tomohiro; Miwa, Hiromi; Feldman, Matthew; Kong, Tsz Kin; Yang, Ziyue; Tay, Woan Ting; Pushkarsky, Ivan; Kim, Kyungsoo; Parikh, Shan S; Udani, Shreya; Soh, Boon Seng; Gao, Chen; Stiles, Linsey; Shirihai, Orian S; Knollmann, Bjorn C; Ardehali, Reza; Di Carlo, Dino; Wang, Yibin 2023. Regulation of Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Maturation by an RNA Splicing Regulator RBFox1. Circulation, 148 16, 1263-1266

Langenbacher, Adam D; Lu, Fei; Crisman, Lauren; Huang, Zi Yi Stephanie; Chapski, Douglas J; Vondriska, Thomas M; Wang, Yibin; Gao, Chen; Chen, Jau-Nian 2023. Rtf1 Transcriptionally Regulates Neonatal and Adult Cardiomyocyte Biology. Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 10 5,

Liu, Jianfang; Liu, Tian; Ren, Shuxun Vincent; Zhu, Cansheng; Bouso, Eyad; Mamlouk, Samir; Rau, Christoph D; Wang, Yibin; Gao, Chen 2023. Metabolic status differentiates Trp53inp2 function in pressure-overload induced heart failure. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 10 , 1226586

Liu, Tian; Gao, Chen 2023. Decode protein-metabolite regulatory network: one MIDAS at a time. Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 8 1, 318

Nguyen, Vi; Gao, Chao; Hochman, Marcelo L; Kravitz, Jacob; Chen, Elliott H; Friedman, Harold I; Wenceslau, Camilla F; Chen, Dongbao; Wang, Yunguan; Nelson, J Stuart; Jegga, Anil G; Tan, Wenbin 2023. Endothelial cells differentiated from patient dermal fibroblast-derived induced pluripotent stem cells resemble vascular malformations of port-wine birthmark. The British journal of dermatology, 189 6, 780-783

Nguyen, Vi; Kravitz, Jacob; Gao, Chao; Hochman, Marcelo L; Meng, Dehao; Chen, Dongbao; Wang, Yunguan; Jegga, Anil G; Nelson, J Stuart; Tan, Wenbin 2023. Perturbations of glutathione and sphingosine metabolites in Port Wine Birthmark patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, ,

Nishi, Kiyoto; Yoshii, Akira; Abell, Lauren; Zhou, Bo; Frausto, Ricardo; Ritterhoff, Julia; McMillen, Timothy S; Sweet, Ian; Wang, Yibin; Gao, Chen; Tian, Rong 2023. Branched-chain keto acids inhibit mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and suppress gluconeogenesis in hepatocytes. Cell reports, 42 6, 112641

Yu, Jia-Yu; Cao, Nancy; Rau, Christoph D; Lee, Ro-Po; Yang, Jieping; Flach, Rachel J Roth; Petersen, Lauren; Zhu, Cansheng; Pak, Yea-Lyn; Miller, Russell A; Liu, Yunxia; Wang, Yibin; Li, Zhaoping; Sun, Haipeng; Gao, Chen 2023. Cell-autonomous effect of cardiomyocyte branched-chain amino acid catabolism in heart failure in mice. Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 44 7, 1380-1390

Zhao, Hongyan; Wang, Peng; Wang, Xiaohong; Du, Wa; Yang, Hui-Hui; Liu, Yueying; Cui, Shu-Nan; Huang, Wei; Peng, Tianqing; Chen, Jing; Gao, Chen; Wang, Yigang; Sadayappan, Sakthivel; Ma, Chengen; Fan, Yanbo; Wang, Chunting; Fan, Guo-Chang 2023. Lipocalin 10 is essential for protection against inflammation-triggered vascular leakage by activating LDL receptor-related protein 2-slingshot homologue 1 signalling pathway. Cardiovascular research, 119 10, 1981-1996

Feng, Yuliang; Cai, Liuyang; Hong, Wanzi; Zhang, Chunxiang; Tan, Ning; Wang, Mingyang; Wang, Cheng; Liu, Feng; Wang, Xiaohong; Ma, Jianyong; Gao, Chen; Kumar, Mohit; Mo, Yuanxi; Geng, Qingshan; Luo, Changjun; Lin, Yan; Chen, Haiyang; Wang, Shuang-Yin; Watson, Michael J; Jegga, Anil G; Pedersen, Roger A; Fu, Ji-Dong; Wang, Zhao V; Fan, Guo-Chang; Sadayappan, Sakthivel; Wang, Yigang; Pauklin, Siim; Huang, Feng; Huang, Wei; Jiang, Lei 2022. Rewiring of 3D Chromatin Topology Orchestrates Transcriptional Reprogramming and the Development of Human Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circulation, 145 22, 1663-1683

Gao, Chen; Gong, Jianli; Cao, Nancy; Wang, Yibin; Steinberg, Susan F 2022. Lipid-independent activation of a muscle-specific PKCα splicing variant. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 323 4, H825-H832

Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin 2022. Cardio-Protective Messengers From "Good Fat". Circulation research, 130 10, 1507-1509

Gao, Chen; Wang, Yibin 2022. YAP: The nexus between metabolism and cardiac remodeling. The Journal of clinical investigation, 132 6,

Yu, Junyi; Wang, Wei; Yang, Jining; Zhang, Ye; Gong, Xue; Luo, Hao; Cao, Nian; Xu, Zaicheng; Tian, Miao; Yang, Peili; Mei, Qiao; Chen, Zhi; Li, Zhuxin; Li, Chuanwei; Duan, Xudong; Lyu, Qing Rex; Gao, Chen; Zhang, Bing; Wang, Yibin; Wu, Gengze; Zeng, Chunyu 2022. LncRNA PSR Regulates Vascular Remodeling Through Encoding a Novel Protein Arteridin. Circulation research, 131 9, 768-787