Caixia Gao

Caixia Gao is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining IGDB in 2009, she served as a Research Scientist at DLF’s biotechnology group in Denmark, where she worked on plant genetic transformation and molecular biology. Her research group focuses on developing precision genome editing technologies and establishing foundational methods on using genome editing to breed for new and sustainable crops. She has developed new crops that are more nutritious, disease resistant, and stress tolerant. Her team has published over 100 papers on plant genome editing, which have cumulatively been cited over 10,000 times. Her research was selected as one of 2016 MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies and one of the most cited Nature Biotechnology papers over its 20 year history in 2016. Also in 2016, Caixia was selected as one of Nature’s ten science stars of China.