Xian-Ming Chen, MD, is a faculty member in the Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity. He received graduate training in China and conducted a Sasakawa Scholarship fellowship in Japan and a second research fellowship at Mayo Clinic. His research interests focus on the regulatory role for ncRNAs in mucosal innate defense and in host-pathogen interactions. Specifically, his research group studies the expression of ncRNA genes and their role in regulation of immune responses of innate immune cells and epithelial cells in the gastrointestinal tract; interactions between gastrointestinal epithelial cells and Cryptosporidium (a long-recognized cause of chronic and life-threatening enteric disease in HIV-AIDS patients and one of the most common pathogens responsible for moderate-to-severe diarrhea in young children worldwide); and the ncRNA signatures that may link mucosal inflammation to the tumorigenesis and other infectious diseases. He served on several NIH study sections and international grant review panels.

My Scopus ID is 35271047800.

Research Areas:
Innate immunity and inflammation, host-pathogen interactions, infectious diseases.

My Faculty Profile at Rush University Medical Center:
https://www.rushu.rush.edu/faculty/xian-ming-chen-md

My Laboratory:
https://www.rushu.rush.edu/research/departmental-research/microbial-pathogens-and-immunity-research/laboratory-xian-ming-chen-md

My NCBI Bibliography:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Xian-Ming+Chen&sort=date

My Scopus:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35271047800

Education:
MD, Xianning Medical College, China
MS, Shanxi Medical University, China
Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Research Fellow, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan
BS, Xianning Medical College, Hubei Medical University (Wuhan University School of Basic Medical Sciences), China