1997年于北京大学医学部获得医学硕士学位；1998年作为访问学者在美国宾夕法尼亚大学工作学习；2004年于瑞士巴塞尔大学/弗里德里奇-米歇尔生物医学研究所获得博士学位；

2005年进入南京大学工作。

持在研国家自然科学基金重大计划培育项目一项，面上项目一项。

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Qi Xiao, Guoxin Zhang, Huijuan Wang, Lai Chen, Shuangshuang Lu, Dejing Pan, Geng Liu*andZhongzhou Yang*. (2017) A p53based genetic tracing system to follow postnatal cardiomyocyte expansion in heart regeneration. Development144: 580-589.(Feature文章/封面)
Wen Luo, Xia Zhao, Hengwei Jin, Lichan Tao, Jingai Zhu, Huijuan Wang, Brian A. Hemmings and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2015) Akt1 signaling coordinates BMP signaling and β-catenin activity to regulate second heart field progenitor development. Development142, 732-742.
Junwei Nie, Mingyang Jiang, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Tang, Hengwei Jin, Xinyi Huang, Baiyin Yuan, Chenxi Zhang, Janice Ching Lai, Yoshikuni Nagamine, Dejing Pan, Wengong Wang* and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2015) Post-transcriptional Regulation of Nkx2-5 by RHAU in Heart Development.Cell Rep.13:723-732. (封面)
Xia Zhao, Shuangshuang Lu, Junwei Nie, Xiaoshan Hu, Wen Luo, Xiangqi Wu, Hailang Liu, Qiuting Feng, Zai Chang, Yaoqiu Liu, Yunshan Cao, Haixiang Sun, Xinli Li, Yali Hu, Zhongzhou Yang*.(2014) Phosphoinositide-dependent Kinase 1 and mTORC2 synergisticallymaintain postnatal heart growth and heart function in mice. Mol. Cell. Biol.34 (11):1966-75.(spotlight文章/封面)
Baiyin Yuan,Ping Wan,Dandan Chu,Junwei Nie,Yunshan Cao,Wen Luo,Shuangshuang Lu,Jiong Chen* and Zhongzhou Yang*.(2014) A Cardiomyocyte-Specific Wdr1 Knockout Demonstrates Essential Functional Roles for Actin Disassembly during Myocardial Growth and Maintenance in Mice.Am J Pathol.184 (7):1967-80.
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