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Xinwei Cao, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
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Xinwei Cao, PhD
Developmental Neurobiology
MS 323, Room D2025G
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Education
BS – Beijing (Peking) University, Beijing, China PhD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas
Research Interests
- Defining mechanisms that regulate the growth of the vertebrate nervous system
- Understanding how growth-control mechanisms are coupled with patterning mechanisms to achieve the proper size, shape, and cytoarchitecture of the nervous system
- Determining the connection between growth-control mechanisms and human neurological tumors and malformations
- Identifying the genetic basis of brain size evolution
