FHS seminar series by Prof. Tian XU

Prof. Tian Xu earned his B.S. in Genetics from Fudan University in 1982 and Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University in 1990. He received his postdoctoral training at the University of California-Berkeley. Prof. Xu is the CNH Long Professor and Vice Chairman of Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also a Cheung Kong Adjunct Professor at Fudan University and Director of the National Center for International Cooperation on Disease and Mechanisms. He serves on the editorial boards of a dozens of international journals including “Cell”, “Annual Review of Genetics” and “The International Journal of Biological Sciences”.

Prof. Xu is a world leader of growth regulation. He pioneered genetic dissection of growth control and identified all the key growth regulators and pathways including TSC/mTor and Lats/Hippo that control growth for both normal development and tumorigenesis. His studies have not only elucidated fundamental principals of developmental biology, but also revealed pathogenic mechanisms and contributed to the development of more than dozen drugs that are either approved by FDA or in clinical trials. He has developed multiple widely used genetic methods and is an inventor for dozens of patents, the chair of SAB for the Rothberg Institute and a founder and scientific advisor/consultant for multiple biotech companies.