Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center

Dr. Zhan Xu joined Prof. Xiang Zhang’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow at Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine in 2018. His research mainly focused on investigating the cellular change and function of stromal cells during breast cancer bone metastasis.

Before moving to BCM, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Nanjing University in 2012, and a PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018 under the mentorship of Prof. Weiguo Zou. His PhD work discovered the effect of SMURF2 on bone development and osteoporosis.