Titles
Co-Section Head, Blood Bank/Apheresis/CTL/HLA
Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Fellowship
Attending Physician, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Transfusion Medicine service
Medical Director, Barnes-Jewish Hospital HLA Laboratory
Education
MD: Peking Union Medical College, Bejing, China (2004)
PhD, Cell & Developmental Biology: Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University; Portland, OR (2010)
Residency, Clinical Pathology: Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, MO (2014)
Fellowship, Transfusion Medicine: Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, MO (2014)
Fellowship, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetic: Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology (2016)
Boards
American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology, 2014
American Board of Pathology, Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, 2014
American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, Laboratory Director, 2016
Recognition
Heme Scholar, Clinical Hematology Research Career Development Program at Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
Best poster award, Resident Research Day, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 2014
Abstract Achievement Award, the 53rd and 54th Annual Meeting of American Society of Hematology, 2012
AABB-Fenwal Transfusion Medicine Fellow Scholarship Award, the 65th Annual Meeting of AABB, 2012
Best grand round presentation award, Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 2011
Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award, the 46th Annual Meeting of Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, 2011
Vertex Scholar, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Oregon Health & Science University, 2009
Research Interests
Methodology development in HLA typing and serology testing; HLA epitope mismatch and transplant outcome; novel therapies for HLA sensitization and antibody-mediated rejection; HLA and disease association
Selected Publications
A microenvironment-driven HLA-II-associated insulin neoantigen elicits persistent memory T cell activation in diabetes
Publication
The questions not addressed: Who should be performing the virtual crossmatch, how should it be classified, and how to obtain reimbursement?
Publication
Virtual crossmatching: Principles, practices, and the path forward—An American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics/College of American Pathologists collaborative
Publication
HLA-Fc fusion proteins for antigen-specific humoral suppression
Publication
Assistant
