ISSN: 2689-8993
Research Associate
Department of Pathology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Maryland, United states of America
Tel: 410-502-5191
Dr. Leyan Xu is Research Associate in Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Xu received his M.D. degree from Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences (Now Jilin University) in 1994 and Ph. D. degree (Major in Medical Image and Nuclear Medicine) in Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) in Peking Union Medical College in 2000. He started research in the biomedicine field in 1994 as a graduate student. Dr. Xu has conducted research on various projects in academia in China (1994-2001), University of Maryland (2001-2003) and The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in USA (2003-Present). Dr. Xu's expertise is in neuroscience including neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, traumatic brain injury, stroke and schizophrenia. Dr. Xu’s contributions and outstanding work are highly recognized and adopted by the independent researchers and experts in his field. He has made progress in stem cell therapy on motor neuron diseases (ALS). His research achievement became the principal foundation upon motor neuron disease clinical human trials for ALS which was approved by FDA. In addition, Dr. Xu managed pre-clinical trial on ALS therapy with umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Based on the progress, He was invited to be Scientific Advisory Board Member on Cell-based Therapy in ALS, Johnson & Johnson, 2011. Dr. Xu has received an American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) Travel Scholarship award and an American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (ASNTR) Travel Award.
