Wei Xiong, PhD

Education and Research Experience

03/2013- present　　 Professor,  University of Science and Technology of China
10/2011-03/2013　　 Research Fellow, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
10/2006-10/2011　　 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
09/2001-07/2006　　 Ph.D., School of Life Sciences, Peking University
09/1997-07/2001　　 B.S., School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research Interests: 

1.  Developing new neurochemical technologies such as single-cell mass  spectrometry, single-organelle mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry  imaging.

2.  Studying the changes of small molecule metabolites in the neurologic  disease such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease using single  cell mass spectrometry and brain mass spectrometry imaging.

3.  Understanding the neuronal circuit mechanism of sensory (especially  pain) processing and its related neurological disorders, such as chronic  inflammatory pain and allodynia and hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain.  Developing new therapeutic medicine and treatment to relieve chronic  pain.

Awards and Honors:

Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists
Young and middle-aged leading scientists, engineers and innovators

Selected Publications:

Cell,173, 1716–1727
Neuropharmacology, 133: 224~232
PNAS, 114: 2586~2591
Nature ChemicalBiology, 7:249-250
Journal of Experimental Medicine, 209 (6): 1121-1134
Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (15): 5200-5208

Representative Research Findings:

Mechanism How Moderate Sunlight Exposure Improves Learning and Memory