Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders

Biography

Junxia Xie is Taishan scholar distinguished professor. She is currently the director of Shandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders. She is also the vice president of Qingdao University, the vice president of Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences as well as Chinese Neuroscience Society. Her research mainly focuses on the pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases, especially the role of iron imbalance and its contributions to nigral dopaminergic neurons degeneration in Parkinson’s disease. She has published 150 articles up to now, including Nature Communications, Neurology, Cell Research etc.

Research Interest

Neurodegenerative Diseases