Xi Chen, Ph.D.

Xi Chen, Ph.D.

• Country of birth: United Kingdom
• Undergraduate university: University of Liverpool, UK (B.S. Honors in Anatomy and Human Cell Biology)
• Graduate university: University of Liverpool, UK (M.S. in Biomedical Sciences and Translational Medicine)
• Graduate university: University of Liverpool, UK (Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences)
• Thesis: Using Caenorhabditis elegans to fight human neurodegenerative disease.
• Currently working on: The role of VPS35 in Parkinson’s disease

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Chen X, Kordich JK, Williams ET, Levine N, Cole-Strauss A, Marshall L, Labrie V, Ma J, Lipton JW, Moore DJ. 2019. Parkinson’s disease-linked D620N VPS35 knockin mice manifest tau neuropathology and dopaminergic neurodegeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.