Dr. Kai Ge received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Fudan University in 1992. His graduate work focused on experimental cancer gene therapy in mice and he earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ge began his postdoctoral work at the Wistar Institute in 1997. In 2000, Dr. Ge became a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Roeder at The Rockefeller University researching the regulation of adipogenesis by the Mediator co-activator complex. Dr. Ge joined the NIDDK as a tenure-track Investigator in 2003 and he is now a Senior Investigator and Section Chief.
Dr. Kai Ge's lab investigates epigenomic regulation of PPARγ and adipogenesis. They also use adipogenesis and embryonic stem cells as model systems to understand epigenomic regulation of cell fate transition, with a focus on transcriptional enhancers.
