Dr. Xueqin Gao is currently a Principal Investigator and Program Director of Bone and Cartilage Biology and Tissue Engineering at the Linda & Mitch Hart Center for Regenerative and Personalized Medicine (CRPM) at Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI). She received her M.D. from Tongji Medical University in 1986 and her Ph.D. from Shandong University in 2005. She was an Assistant Professor from May 2015 to January 2020 at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center and a Visiting scientist at the Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI) before joining SPRI full-time on 28 January 2020. She was also an Associate Member of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and UTHealth in 2018. She has won many career awards such as the New Investigator Recognition Award from ORS (2012), the AFIRM Career Enrichment Award (2012), the Young Investigator Travel Awards from ASBMR (2014), and ASGCT (2014). She is an editorial board member and peer reviewer for several journals and meeting abstracts reviewer of ORS, ASBMR, and ASGCT. Her research in Dr. Huard's team on microfracture enhancement and cartilage repair has lead to several clinical trials that are ongoing at the Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philippon Research Institute.