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Wa Xian

Wa Xian

Editorial Board Member
Nankai University China Member since 2017

Biography

Wa Xian received her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Nankai University in China and Ph.D. degree in Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, focusing on master regulator genes of cell proliferation and lineage specification during early neural development. The support of a DOD breast cancer fellowship enabled She is postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffrey Rosen at the Baylor College of Medicine. There she used a combination of ligand-induced dimerization strategies and a mammary epithelial 3D culture system to address the role of fibroblast receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in the evolution of breast cancer. In 2008, She moved to Harvard Medical School under the direction of Director of Women’s and Perinatal Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital to study the origin and evolution of ovarian cancer. She continues to work very closely with Prof. Crum on the origins and chemotherapy resistance problem in high-grade ovarian cancer. In 2009, Dr. Xian was appointed Principal Investigator at the Institute of Medical Biology of the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research in Singapore, where she jointly oversaw a highly interactive group of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research assistants with Prof Frank McKeon of the Genome Institute of Singapore devoted to the cloning of stem cells of regenerative tissues and using advanced technologies to understand the genetics of their self-renewal, commitment, and differentiation.

Research Interests

A Broad Platform of Tissue-Specific Adult Stem Cells for Modeling Human Disease Drug Discovery Regenerative Medicine Liver Pancreas Kidney.

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