Xie Dan PhD

Dr Xie is a Professor and Vice Director of the Department of Pathology, at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center. He is a principal investigator of the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and the Vice Chairman of Young committee members in the Cancer Metastasis Association of the Chinese Anticancer Association. He is one of the Distinguished Young Scholars (National Nature Science Fund of China) and Outstanding Scholars in the New Era (the Ministry of Education of China). Dr Xie’s research focuses on the genetic mechanisms and/or prediction biomarkers of cancer metastasis in several types of human carcinomas including colorectal, hepatocellular, oesophageal, and lung cancers.

He has been granted by the National Fund for Outstanding Young Scientists of China, the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), and the Nature Science Foundation of China. He has over 130 papers published in peer-reviewed English journals, such as Lancet Oncol, Gut, Hepatology, Cancer Res, Oncogene, Clin Cancer Res, Ann Oncol, and others.