Dr. Hao Ding received his Bachelor of Medicine from the Shanghai Medical University, China (1987); and his Ph.D. degree on Molecular Biology from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1997). His post-doctoral training (between 1997 and 2004) was done in the labs of Drs. Andras Nagy and Abhijit Guha at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto. In 2004, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair and had established his research laboratory at the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba and is currently an Associate Professor

Vannier, J.B., Sandhu, S., Petalcorin, M., Wu, X., Nabi, Z., Ding, H*., Boulton, S.J*. RTEL1 is a replisome-associated helicase that promotes telomere and genome-wide replication. Science, 2013, 342(6155):239-242 *shared corresponding authorship Vannier, J.B., Pavicic-Kaltenbrunner, V., Petalcorin, M., Ding, H., Boulton, S.J. RTEL1 dismantles T loops and counteracts telomeric G4-DNA to maintain telomere integrity. Cell, 2012, 149 (4):795-806 Nicklas, S., Otto, A., Wu, X., Miller, P., Stelzer, S., Wen, Y., Kung, S., Wrogemann, K., Patel, K., Ding, H*., Schwamborn, J.C*. TRIM32 regulates skeletal muscle stem cell differentiation and is necessary for normal adult muscle regeneration. Plos One, 2012, 7(1):e30445 *shared corresponding authorship Wu, X., Sandhu, S., Nabi, Z., Ding, H. Generation of a mouse model for studying the role of upregulated RTEL1 activity in tumorigenesis. Transgenic Res., 2012, 5:1109-1115 Sandhu, S., Wu, X., Nabi, Z., Rastegar, M., Kung, S., Mai, S., Ding, H. Loss of HLTF promotes intestinal carcinogenesis. Mol Cancer, 2012, 11:18