Affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital

Dr. Dingkang Xu is an attending physician in the Department of Neurosurgery at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences). He received his PhD from Peking Union Medical College.

He has published over 30 peer-reviewed SCI-indexed papers, with an h-index of 12. Dr. Xu has led a Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and participated in several major projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China, the General Program of the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, and the General Program of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission.

His research focuses on big data, multi-omics, and real-world studies of cerebrovascular diseases and brain tumors, as well as the molecular regulation of the blood-brain barrier.