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Fengyun Xu, PhD

Specialist

Biography

Dr. Xu obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Beijing University Health Science Center in China. She joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSF as a postdoc researching the role of cytochrome P450 derived eicosanoids in blood pressure regulation and inflammation. A few years later she joined Hellman lab. She is doing research on the role of TLR2, MAP kinases, and cannabinoids in endothelial permeability, inflammation, bacterial invasion and clearance and organ injury in sepsis. Dr. Xu is the Hellman lab manager, and is in charge of lab safety and major equipment maintenance.

Education

Postdoctoral Studies, - Graduate Division, University of California, San Francisco