Ming Pei is an Associate Professor and a Director of Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in Exercise Physiology and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He received his PhD from Beijing University, China in 1999. He spent three years as a Postdoctoral Associate in Harvard – M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and three years as a Research Fellow in Department of Orthopaedics, Brown University.

o Cartilage Tissue Engineering and Regeneration and Defect Repair 

o Intervertebral Disc Tissue Regeneration 

o Bone Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, Defect Repair and Fracture Healing 

o Adult Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation 

o In Vitro 3D Microenvironment and Extracellular Matrix 

o Chondrogenic Signaling Pathway and Epigenetic Regulation