Xi Cheng is a pre-doctoral fellow in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences. His research focus is in the area of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases. He received his Bachelor s degree in Bioengineering from the Fuzhou University Zhicheng College in China in 2012. Besides obtaining a Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics and Biomarkers, since 2013, he has been researching with Dr. Bina Joe to investigate the contributions of non-coding RNAs to the inheritance of hypertension using novel congenic and gene-edited rat models of hypertension. He ha...