Cong Xu is currently working as a postdoc researcher in the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany. He has completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the same institute in 2014. He received his Master degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wuhan University in 2009. Cong has more than 10 years of excellent research experience in the field of Vascular Biology, a sub-discipline of cardiovascular research. His main research interests are vascular formation and differentiation, vascular aging, tissue and organ regeneration and bone development and diseases.