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Xin Xie
Research Scientist
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge; Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Research Areas: bio active compound screening, molecular immunology, epigenetics
Xin Xie did his undergraduate and Master's at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in Molecular biology, focusing on cancer research. Xie finished his PhD in MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University in 2015. His PhD project focuses on the functional analysis of Foxp3 protein in gene expression control in regulatory T cells, molecular immunology perspective.
Xin Xie joined NYUAD in 2016 as a postdoc in the biology program and has finished three years of research in the nuclear function of beta-actin in genome organization, gene expression control, and cell identity regulation. He is currently working as a research scientist in the Center for Genomics and systems biology, to screen novel compounds and repurpose existing compounds for novel biological function.
Research
Screening of bio active compounds from marine bacteria CRISPR-based screening method development Development of a NYUAD screening facility for COVID-19.