Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute；CFAC Chair of Animal Cores.Faculty Director of UNC Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core.Associate Professor of Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.McAllister Heart Institute.Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.University of North Carolina.

Dr. Qian is interested in developing innovative approaches to regenerate or repair an injured heart. Her goal is to understand the molecular basis of cardiomyocyte specification and maturation and apply this knowledge to improve efficiency and clinical applicability of cellular reprogramming in heart disease. In addition, she takes advantage of traditional mouse genetics, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry and newly developed reprogramming technologies (iPSC and iCM) to investigate the fundamental events underlying the progression of various cardiovascular diseases as well as to discover the basic mechanisms of cell reprogramming.