Xuemin Xu, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-8206

FAX: (865) 974-5616

Education

1982 -- Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun (P.R. China) B.S. (Chemistry) awarded 3/82
1985 -- Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, Yokohama 227 (Japan) M.S. (Biochemistry) awarded 3/85
1989 -- Department of Life Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta, Yokohama 227 (Japan) Ph.D. (Molecular Biology) awarded 3/89
1989 -- Graduate Fellow, Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation Research Center, Midori-ku Yokohama, 227 (Japan)
Graduate Fellow
Fellowship: The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) (4 April 1988 -- 31 March 1989)

The molecular and cellular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegeneration.
The mechanism of apoptotic cell death found in Neurodegenerative Disease, specifically, Alzheimer’s disease.
Protein-protein interaction and its role in intracellular signal transduction.
I am currently conducting two research projects studying the pathological roles of
1. presenilins
2. apolipoprotein E in Alzheimer’s disease
The goal of my research is to determine the normal functions of these genes in neuron development including differentiation and survival, and the pathological role of these genes in Alzheimer’s disease using molecular and cellular approaches.