Ping Xu

Ping Xu is the Beijing Sea Poly Talents Program' scholar and the director of the Department of Genomics and Proteomics at the Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine. He is also the principal investigator in the Lab of Protein Posttranslational Modification at the Beijing Proteome Research Center. He earned his BSc degree in genetics at Wuhan University and his PhD degree in microbiology at Yunnan University, 2004. Right after that, he moved to the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University for his postdoctor training on proteomics. He is working on the biological function of protein post-translational modification, specifically the function of ubiquitin chains and their disregulation in the occurrence and development of liver disease by proteomics approaches. He is also leading the Chromosome Centric Proteome Project in China. His research involves state-of-art technologies for profiling thousands of proteins and posttranslational modifications by quantitative mass spectrometry and large scale data processing. Dr Xu co-chaired China-EU GlycoHIT International Collaboration Project under the 7th framework of the EU, developing and improving glyco-proteomics measurement approaches and their application in cancer research.