# First person – Jing-Fu Bao

## TL;DR

Jing-Fu Bao discusses his research on C-C motif receptor 2's role in uremic cardiomyopathy, published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.

## Contribution

Identifies C-C motif receptor 2 as a key pro-fibrotic factor in uremic cardiomyopathy.

## Key findings

- C-C motif receptor 2 contributes to fibrosis in uremic cardiomyopathy.
- The research explores therapeutic strategies targeting this receptor.

## Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jing-Fu Bao is first author on ‘
C-C motif receptor 2 is a core pro-fibrotic factor in uremic cardiomyopathy’, published in DMM. Jing-Fu conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in the lab of Aiqing Li at Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, investigating the pathogenesis of and therapeutic strategies for uremic cardiomyopathy.