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EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
2008.9-2008.11 Visiting professor in Loma Linda UniversityU.S.A.
2003.2-2005.7 Postdoc in Louisiana State University U.S.A.
1998.9-2005.12 Ph.D. in Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 1991.9-1996.6 M.D. in Zhejiang Medical University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. CNS injury and regeneration
2. The role of astrocyte in plasticityand in CNS injury
3. Mechanism of medication nature in Chinese traditional medicine and therapy potential in CNS diseases

PAPERS:
1.Wang XY, Chen ZH, Zhang RY, Liu SQ, Mei Z, Yu YY, Zhang X, Xia Q, Ding YM. Construction of a eukaryotic expression vector pEGFP-C1-BMP-2 and its effect on cell migration. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2012;13(5):356-63.
2.方露玫，张明明，丁悦敏，方玉婷，姚春蕾，张雄*. 木犀草素对缺血再灌损伤神经元的保护作用及机制研究.中国中药杂志,2010;35(8):1051-54.
3. Yuemin Ding, Chu Chen, Xiong Zhang*. AMPA receptors mediate LTP like response in dentate gyrus astrocyte. Journal of Physiological Sciences, 2009 Oct 20; 59(suppl 1):194.
4. Xiong Zhang, Jian Zhang, Chu Chen. Long-Term Potentiation at Hippocampal Perforant Path-Dentate Astrocyte Synapses. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2009; 383(3):326-330.
5. Grewal S, Defamie N, Zhang X, De Gois S, Shawki A, Mackenzie B, Chen C, Varoqui H, Erickson JD. SNAT2 amino acid transporter is regulated by alpha - and beta -amino acids of the SLC6 GABA transporter subfamily in neocortical neurons and may play no role in delivering glutamine for glutamatergic transmission. J Biol Chem. 2009; 284(17):11224-36.