Author: Xiao-Ming Yin

Dr. Wen-Xing Ding is an Associate Professor of Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics at The University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. He did his Postdoctoral training at University of Pittsburgh. In the past decade, Dr. Ding’s research has been focused on the molecular mechanisms of cell death and autophagy in alcohol and drug-induced liver injury as well as liver tumorigenesis. Dr. Ding is a member of American Association of Studies of Liver Disease (AASLD), Society of Toxicology (SOT) and Research society of Alcoholism. Dr. Ding was a Liver Scholar of American Liver Foundation and a recipient of University Scholarly Achievement Award. Dr. Ding has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and his research work is currently supported by NIAAA and NIDDK. Dr. Xiao-Ming Yin is the Louis Y. Mazzini Professor of Pathology at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.  He obtained his medical degree from Shanghai Medical University and his Ph D degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.  He completed his post-doctoral fellow training and his pathology residency training at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Yin is a member of several scientific societies and is a fellow of American Association of Studies of Liver Disease (AASLD). He has won the Outstanding Investigator Award from American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP). His research interest is the cell death and survival in tissue injury and cancer biology, particularly in the liver system.