Xi ChengXi 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 Bioengineerin 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 has been invited to deliver podium presentations of his research at various Research conferences including the 2015 Midwest Graduate Symposium held in Toledo, OH, USA and the 2015 Annual Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology meeting held in Boston, USA and the 42nd Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium held in Toledo, OH, USA. Read More Read Less