◆Skeletal development and homeostasis

◆Osteoporosis

◆Osteoarthritis

◆Tumor skeletal metastases

◆1999.09-2004.07 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tianjin Medical University  MD

◆2004.09-2010.07 Joint Training Program of Chinese and American Doctor            PhD

◆2010.07- 2011.08    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   Post-Doc

◆2014.11- 2016.12    Dept of Biology, SUSTech                 Engineer

2017.01- 2020.02      Dept of Biology, SUSTech                 Research associate professor

◆2020.03-                  School of Medicine, SUSTech           Research associate professor

◆Excellent PhD Graduate Award, Tianjin medical university, China, 2010

◆ASBMR Young Investigator Award, 2011

◆Young Investigator Award, ICBMR & 11th International Osteoporosis Symposium, 2011

◆Chinese National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation nomination, 2012

◆Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award

◆Shenzhen peacock scholar (Class C) (2015)

◆ASBMR Young Investigator Travel Grant, 2016

◆ICMRC-2017 Young Investigator Award

◆ASBMR Plenary poster, 2017

◆Webster Jee Travel Award, The 10th Annual Meeting of the National Osteoporosis and Bone and Mineral Research, the Chinese Medical Association, 2018

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6. Zhu K, Jiao H, Li S, Cao H, Galson DL, Zhao Z, Zhao X, Lai Y, Fan J, Im HJ, Chen D, Xiao G*. ATF4 regulates bone angiogenesis during development and in hypoxia in mice. J Bone Miner Res. 2013. PMID:23649506
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8. Qin T, Xu G, Qi J, Yang G, Zhang K, Liu H, Xu L, Xiang R, Xiao G, Cao H, Wei Y, Zhang Q, Li L. Tumor necrosis factor superfamily member 15 (Tnfsf15) facilitates lymphangiogenesis via upregulation of Vegfr3 gene expression in lymphatic endothelial cells. J Pathol. 2015. PMID: 26096340
9. Wu C, Jiao H, Lai, Y Zheng W, Chen K, Deng W, Song P, Zhu K, Cao H, Galson DL, Fan J, Im HJ, Liu Y, Chen J, Chen D, Xiao G. Kindlin-2 controls TGF-β signaling and Sox9 expression to regulate chondrogenesis. Nat Commun. 2015 Jul 7;6:7531. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8531. PMID: 26151572
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