Jing Xiao, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota
Department of Neurosurgery
421 Lions Research Building
2001 Sixth Street SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
xiaox001@umn.edu

Jing is a post-doctoral associate at the University of Minnesota. She received her MD degree from Chongqing Medical College in China and received her Master of Medical Science degree from West China University of Medical Science. After which she worked as a pathologist in the Department of Pathology at Guangdong Medical College. In 1993, Jing moved to Minnesota and worked as a senior laboratory technician in the Immunology laboratory of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. There she participated in a study involving the porcine reproductive and respiratory system virus and another project involving opiates, infection and immunity. Jing accepted a position as an assistant scientist in the Immunology laboratory in the Ophthalmology department in 1996. While there she studied therapeutic approaches for the treatment of Uveitis, the mechanisms of ocular immune privilege, and the specificity and activation requirements of autoreactive T cells. During that time, she received her MSS degree in computer science from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.

Jing began working in the Neurosurgery research laboratory as a post-doctoral associate in 2001. She is currently researching the therapeutic potentials of stems cells on Parkinson’s Disease. She isolates, cultures, and characterizes umbilical cord blood stem cells and studies in vitro differentiation and in vivo function.