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Professor Heping Xu

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Professor Heping Xu

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Professor Xu is interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in sight-threatening retinal diseases, including age-related retinal degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and uveitis. His research is focused on 1) the initiation and regulation of retinal inflammatory response during ageing and diabetes, 2) autoimmune response in uveitis, 3) the molecular mechanism of inflammation-mediated retinal neuronal degeneration, 4) the link between chronic inflammation and the development of retinal angiogenesis or fibrovascular membrane, and 5) ocular drug delivery.

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  • heping.xu@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 6463, +44 (0)28 906 33615

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Immunology
  • Cell and molecular biology
  • Retinal pathophysiology
  • Pharmacology

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Fight for Sigh grant assessment panel 
  • Service at the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 
  • Service at the ISER 2018 Programme Committee 
  • Service in ARVO Committee 
  • Executive Editor of Experimental Eye Research 
  • Member of Editor Board of Annals of Eye Science 
  • Para-inflammation in the retina 
  • Inflammation and retinal microvascular degeneration 
  • EU 2020 ITN – Ocuther 

Research students

PhD Title Molecular mechanism of retinal neuronal degeneration
Country P.R. China
   
PhD Title  Molecular mechanism of retinal fibrosis
Country  UK
   
PhD Title  Developing a novel therapy for diabetic macular oedeme
Country  Republic of Ireland

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title STAT3 activation and Diabetic Retinopathy
Country Nigeria
Current Position  Post-doctorial Research Fellow, Ulster University, NI
   
PhD Title  The role of myeloid derived cells in retinal inflammation and inflammation-mediated retinal angiogenesis
Country  P.R. China
Current Position  Research Scientist, NI
   

 

 


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