Xinghua Pan is a Professor at the Precision Regenerative Medicine Research Centre, Medical Science Division, Macau University of Science and Technology. He founded and directed the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Single Cell Technology and Application, and previously served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southern Medical University, China. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade as a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at Yale University School of Medicine. He earned his MD and MS from Southern Medical University and his PhD from Fudan University under Dr. CC Tan. He completed two postdoctoral fellowships: one at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College with Dr. Min Wu, and another at Yale University with Dr. Sherman Weissman. Since the early 2000s, as a member of the international ENCODE consortium, he pioneered single-cell sequencing technologies, innovating methods for single-cell genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and telomere analysis, and laid the groundwork for single-cell multi-omics. His research spans human development and diseases, with a focus on stemness and cancer. He has authored over 160 publications in journals such as PNAS, Nature Communications, Cell Discovery, and Advanced Science, with total citations exceeding 11,500. He holds 15 issued patents in the US and China. Dr. Pan serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for several prestigious journals including Nature series, and is the Associate Editor of Precision Clinical Medicine (Oxford University Press). He is also the founder and Chairman of the International Conference on Single-Cell and Spatial Omics (TICSSO).
