Cong Xu studied vascular regeneration using the adult zebrafish fin regeneration model during my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster (2010–2014).  He also worked as a postdoc on a project to define the role of innate lymphoid cells in lung fibrosis at University Hospital Erlangen (2020–2023) and on a project to develop bone-targeting recombinant protein to stimulate osteogenesis in vivo at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster (2015–2020). Since 2023, Cong joined Prof. Bibli's group as a postdoctoral fellow with a focus on the metabolic regulation of endothelial cell fates and functions.