Research Interests
Dr. Zhao’s group is interested in the control of directed cell motility and directed cell division. One particular interest is in the role played by small physiological electrical fields in wound healing, the development and regeneration of many tissues. He has been leading the group that attracted research funding of £2.7m (~ US $4.9 million) in the last eight years. He leads international collaborations to unravel the electrical control of cell migration and growth with Colin McCaig, John Forrester, Bing Song (University of Aberdeen), Josef Penninger (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Peter Devreotes (Johns Hopkins University Medical School), Henry Bourne (UCSF), Eammon Gaffney, Philip Manni (Oxford University), Robert Insall (Glasgow, Scotland), Kees Weijer (Dundee, Scotland), Yuesheng Huang and Jianxin Jiang (China).