Prof. Mo Xuming

Academic Profile

Prof. Mo Xuming is Vice President of Nanjing Children's Hospital and Chief of its Cardiothoracic Surgery department. A graduate of Chongqing Medical University (1983), he has performed thousands of pediatric cardiac operations and leads one of East China's largest pediatric heart surgery programs. His team revealed the genetic architecture of congenital heart disease in Han Chinese populations — landmark work published in Nature Genetics.

Appointments & Honors

• Corresponding author of CHD genetics research in Nature Genetics
• National Science & Technology Progress Award (2nd Prize)
• Vice President, Nanjing Children's Hospital; State Council Special Allowance expert

Appointments

• Vice President & Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital
• Group leader, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Medical Association
• Doctoral supervisor, Nanjing Medical University

Academic Achievements

• Revealed the genetic architecture of congenital heart disease in Han Chinese — landmark GWAS in Nature Genetics
• National Science & Technology Progress Award (2nd Prize) for pediatric cardiac surgery innovation
• State Council Special Allowance expert; thousands of pediatric cardiac operations performed
• Built East China's reference center for neonatal & complex CHD surgery

Selected Publications

• A genome-wide association study identifies two susceptibility loci for congenital heart defects in the Chinese population

  Nature Genetics · 2013 · Corresponding author

• Copy number variation analysis reveals novel candidate genes for congenital heart disease in Han Chinese children

  Nature Communications · 2015 · Corresponding author