Xia Wen, PhD

Lauren Aleksunes Lab

PhD – Clinical Pharmacology – University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
MD – Clinical Medicine – Hunan Medical University, China

• Evaluate the effects of neuroinflammation on expression of transporter MDR1 and herbicide paraquat levels and toxicity
• Renal Efflux Transporters as modulators of heavy metal toxicity
• Characterization of transporters MRP2 SNPs in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity
• Identification of kidney injury markers in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in cancer patients
• Investigation of the role of placenta transporters in maternal-fetal disposition of drugs and toxicants

Member, Society of Toxicology (SOT)

Young Scientist Travel Award (2006 Experimental Biology meeting), American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
2006 Best Paper Award-2nd Place (Postdoctoral Fellow Category, 2006 Experimental Biology meeting), American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
2006 Medical University of South Carolina, Student Research Day, Postdoctoral I (Poster Category)-2nd Place
2012 Finalist for Mechanisms SS Gabriel L. Plaa Education Award of SOT (2012)
2013 Young Scientist Travel Award for AAPS Workshop on Drug Transporters in ADME: From the Bench to the Bedside