2016年作为学科带头人、特聘教授加入华侨大学；先后担任生物医学学院/医学院院长、“精准医疗中心”主任，入选福建省“百人计划”特聘专家、厦门市“双百计划”创业人才、泉州市“桐江学者”特聘教授。

研究方向：

• 干细胞、神经干细胞发育和神经再生

• 神经系统发育和人类神经、精神疾病的遗传机制

• 非编码RNA的基因治疗及精准医学研究

重要科研成就：

1.利用单细胞测序技术，揭示了人类大脑中间神经元发育规律，研究成果

于2021年发表在“Nature Neuroscience”上。

2.率先筛选了人类胚胎大脑不对称表达基因。此工作发表在＂Science＂杂志上。

此文被引用270余次。

3.首次建立了微型RNA sponge转基因小鼠， 发表于“Cell Reports”。

4.率先建立了用人类PDGFRa YAC DNA的转基因小鼠。

孙涛教授实验室发表于Nature Neuroscience 的论文受到了广泛关注，在发表后至今，文章已经被下载6000余次，并很快在2022年1月，被“Science”杂志以“观点（Perspective）”文章引用和关注。

孙涛教授亦受到了“中国科学报”的采访和报道。

截至目前，在Science、Cell、Nature neuroscience、PNAS、Cell reports等顶级杂志发表各类论文近百篇。

重要科研论文：

Yuan Yu, Zhiwei Zeng, Danlin Xie, Renliang Chen, Yongqiang Sha, Shiying Huang, Wenjie Cai, Wanhua Chen, Wenjun Li, Rongqin Ke, Tao Sun (2021) Interneuron origin and molecular diversity in the human fetal brain. Nature Neuroscience. 24(12): 1745-1756. PMID: 34737447

Kunzhao Du, Zhen Zhang, Zhiwei Zeng, Jinling Tang, Trevor Lee, Tao Sun (2021) Distinct roles of Fto and Mettl3 in controlling development of the cerebral cortex through transcriptional and translational regulations. Cell Death & Disease. 12(7):700. PMID: 34262022; PMCID: PMC8280107.

Jennifer L. Knauss, Nan Miao, Seung-Nam Kim, Yanzhen Nie, Yuelin Shi, Tao Wu, Hugo Borges Pinto, Mary E. Donohoe and Tao Sun (2018) Long noncoding RNA Sox2ot and transcription factor YY1 co-regulate differentiation of cortical neural progenitors by repressing Sox2. Cell Death and Disease. 9(8):799. PMID: 30038234.

Aisha I. Abdullah, Haijun Zhang, Yanzhen Nie, Wei Tang and Tao Sun (2016). CDK7 and miR-210 Co-regulate Cell-Cycle Progression of Neural Progenitors in the Developing Neocortex. Stem Cell Reports. 7(1):69-79. PMID: 27411104, PMCID: PMC4944761.

Junghee Jin, Seung-Nam Kim, Xuqing Liu, Haijun Zhang, Chao Zhang, Ji-Seon Seo, Yong Kim, Tao Sun (2016). miR-17-92 Cluster Regulates Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Anxiety, and Depression. Cell Reports. 16(6):1653-63. PMID: 27477270, PMCID: PMC4981532.

Andrew Pollock, Shan Bian, Chao Zhang, Zhengming Chen, Tao Sun (2014). Growth of the developing cerebral cortex is controlled by microRNA-7 through the p53 pathway. Cell Reports. 7(4):1184-96. PMID: 24813889.

Shan Bian, Janet Hong, Qingsong Li, Laura Schebelle, Andrew Pollock, Vidur Garg and Tao Sun (2013). miR-17-92 miRNAs regulate expansion of radial glial cells and conversion of intermediate progenitors in the developing neocortex. Cell Reports. 3(5):1398-1406. PMID: 23623502; PMCID: PMC3762321.

Tomasz Jan Nowakowski, Vassiliki Fotaki, Andrew Pollock, Tao Sun, Thomas Pratt and David J. Price (2013). MicroRNA-92b regulates the development of intermediate cortical progenitors in embryonic mouse brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(17):7056-61. PMID: 23569256.

Qingsong Li, Shan Bian, Bingfang Liu, Janet Hong, Yan Zhao, Miklos Toth and Tao Sun (2013). Establishing brain functional laterality in adult mice through unilateral gene manipulation in the embryonic cortex. Cell Research. 23(9):1147-9. PMID: 23917527; NIHMSID: 485487.

Hea-Jin Jung, Catherine Coffinier, Youngshik Choe, Anne P. Beigneux, Brandon S. J. Davies, Shao H. Yang, Richard H. Barnes II, Janet Hong, Tao Sun, Samuel J. Pleasure, Stephen G. Young and Loren G. Fong (2012) Regulation of prelamin A but not lamin C by miR-9, a brain-specific microRNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109(7): E423-31.

Keith L. Ligon, Santosh Kesari, Masaaki Kitada, Tao Sun, Heather A. Arnett, John A. Alberta, David J. Anderson, Charles D. Stiles, and David H. Rowitch (2006). Development of NG2 neural progenitor cells requires Olig gene function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(20):7853-8.

Tao Sun, Christina Patoine, Jane Visvader, Eleanor Sum, Timothy J. Cherry, Stuart H. Orkin, Daniel H. Geschwind and Christopher A. Walsh (2005). Early asymmetry of gene transcription in embryonic human left and right cerebral cortex. Science, 308(5729):1794-8. (Published online 12 May 2005).

基金项目：

1. 2023-2026 中国国家自然科学基金面上项目，项目第一负责人

2. 2018-2021 中国国家自然科学基金面上项目，项目第一负责人

3. 2017-2020 华侨大学科研启动项目，项目第一负责人

4. 2017-2020 福建省“百人计划”，项目第一负责人

5. 2009-2019 美国国家卫生研究院(NIH)（十年资助项目），PI，第一课题负责人

6. 2017-2020 “桐江学者”科研补助，项目第一负责人

招生：

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