Dr. Jun Cai received his MD and PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and completed postdoctoral training in Developmental Neuroscience with a focus on oligodendrocyte development, supported by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He has a broad background in medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, and developmental neuroscience, with specific expertise in genetic manipulation, embryonic and explant electroporation, stereotactic delivery of drugs, viruses, or cells, neurobehavioral testing, and rodent models of drug-induced demyelination–remyelination, spinal cord and brain injury, hypoxia, and neurotropic solid tumors.

His research, funded by multiple NIH, national, state, and private foundations, focuses on gene–environment interactions in CNS development, disease, and regeneration. Dr. Cai has published more than ninety peer-reviewed original research articles in journals including Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, Glia, Journal of Neuroinflammation, Development, Stem Cells, and Journal of Pathology.

Dr. Cai serves as a peer reviewer for numerous scientific journals and as an ad hoc grant reviewer for national and international funding agencies.  He has also served on NIH and VA scientific review panels and various professional committees. He is a member of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for Neuroscience, National Neurotrauma Society, and Sleep Research Society, and is a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.