Xuejun Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Director, MD/PhD Program
Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: (605) 677-3182 
Fax: (605) 677-6381
Xuejun.Wang@usd.edu

 

Education/Training Background:

Ph.D., University of South Dakota, 1998
M.D., Hubei Medical University (Wuhan University School of Medicine), Wuhan, China, 1985

 

Post Doctoral Positions:

 

Director, PQCD Research Center, Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota (USD), Vermillion, SD, USA,  2010 – Present

 

Professor with tenure, Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, USD Sanford School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD, USA, 2006-Present

 

Director, the MD/PhD Program, USD, 2006-Present

 

Associate Professor with tenure, Cardiovascular Research Institute / Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, USD Sanford School of Medicine , 2006

 

Associate Professor (tenure-track), Cardiovascular Research Institute / Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, USD Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA, 2005 – 2006

 

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Cardiovascular Research Institute/Division of Basic Medical Sciences, USD School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA, 2001-2005

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1998 - 2001

 

Research Interests:

Protein quality control and degradation (PQCD) in cardiac physiology and pathophysiology;
Molecular mechanisms of progression of various heart diseases to congestive heart failure;
Molecular pathogenesis of conformational cardiac disease.

 

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