Xuehua Xu
Professor/Director
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,Georgetown University School of Medicine
USA
Biography
Xuehua Xu has completed his Ph.D. from Tsukuba University, Japan, in 2002 and did postdoctoral studies in chemotaxis using model system Dictyostlium discoideum using state-of-art imaging technology to systematically monitoring GPCR mediated signaling pathways at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In 2006, shewas recruited to Georgetown University School of Medicine as the director of Dynamic Imaging in Microscope Imaging Shared Resources. Xu further expanded her research to understand macrophage chemotaxis in metastasis of breast cancer cell and also human neutrophil chemotaxis. She has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and serves as an editorial board member of several journals and grant review committee.
Research Interest
G- Protein coupled receptors control neutrophil chemotaxis.