Affiliation: Laboratory of Pamela Schwartzberg, Cell Signaling and Immunity Section, Laboratory of Immune System Biology, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States

Dr. Xu obtained her M.D. in Clinical Medicine from Zhejiang University (2009) and worked in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University until 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in Immunology from Zhejiang University in 2019, focusing on key regulatory genes in T helper cell differentiation by utilizing conditional gene knockout mice. She continued her work by conducting assessments on patients with autoimmune diseases after joining as a rheumatologist at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in 2019. Currently, she is a postdoctoral visiting fellow at NIAID (NIH), primarily engaged research on adaptive immune responses in pharyngeal tissues following SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or vaccination in Dr. Pamela Schwartzberg's lab.