SPEAKERS
Xiang-Dong Fu
AFFILIATION:
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
POSITION TITLE:
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Ph.D. 1988 Biochemistry
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Postdoc 1992 Molecular Biology
HONORS:
1983-1988 CUSBEA (China-US Biochemistry Examination and Application) fellowship
1994-1997 Searle Scholar
1997-2002 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar
2003 Distinguished Alumnus of Wuhan University
2000-2005 Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer Award, National Cancer Institute
2008-2010 Challenge Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation
2010- Elected AAAS Fellow
2016- Ray Wu Award
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Fu was responsible for co-discovery of SR proteins, a family of RNA binding proteins involved in constitutive and alternative pre-mRNA processing. His laboratory was the first to identify a family of kinases specific for SR proteins and demonstrated that these kinases are critical for transducing external and intracellular signals to regulate alternative splicing in the nucleus. Dr. Fu's group elucidated a series of regulatory mechanisms for splice site selection in mammalian cells and developed multiple key technologies for high throughput analysis of gene expression, mRNA isoforms, and genomic interactions. Dr. Fu's current research is focused on integrated regulation of gene expression at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Dr. Fu's contribution to biomedical science has been recognized by selection for the Searle Scholar award (1994) and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar award (1997) and election to AAAS Fellow (2010).
PUBLICATIONS:
List of published work in Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-TW&user=FfEWiUkAAAAJ