Yigang Wang is a Professor and Director of the Regenerative Medicine Division at the University of Cincinnati. He also served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cardiovascular Center. He received his medical degree from Qinghai Medical College, China, in 1983 and earned his doctorate from Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, in 1997. His research in cardiovascular pathophysiology and therapies has focused on three areas: (1) the effects of various additive agents of cardioplegic solution on functional cardiac restoration, (2) ischemic preconditioning against ischemia/reperfusion injury, its molecular mechanisms, and signaling pathways, and (3) progenitor cell-based cell therapy for the treatment of myocardial infarction.