Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2012;2(2):91 Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Chinese Pharmaceutical Association
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Editor Profile Guest Editor and Executive Editor-in-chief of the Special Issue Drug Metabolism and Transport
Professor Xinxin Ding Contact Information Address: Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Empire State Plaza, Box 509, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA Phone: (518) 486-2585 Fax: (518)-473-8722 E-mail:
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Prof. Xinxin Ding received a Bachelor’s degree in 1982, in Biology, from the Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, and a Ph.D. degree in 1988, in Biological Chemistry, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is currently a Professor of Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience, and Toxicology, and the Director of Toxicology Track, of the School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, and the Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Toxicology, at the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health. Prof. Ding also has concurrent faculty appointments at the Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and at the Nanjing University. Prof. Ding is an author or co-author of more than 100 original research papers. Currently, Prof. Ding studies the function and regulation of microsomal cytochrome P450 enzymes in various organ systems. A major area of his research involves development and application of genetically engineered mouse models for drug metabolism and toxicology studies. His laboratory also made major contributions to the identification of a human P450, CYP2A13, as an important enzyme for tobacco-related lung carcinogenesis. Prof. Ding is a member of numerous scientific societies. He was the Secretary/Treasurer of the Drug Metabolism Division, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, in 2005–2006, and Chair of the program committee for the 18th International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations, Beijing, China, in 2010. He is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and is currently an Associate Editor for Drug Metabolism and Disposition and Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. He was recently given the Distinguished Chinese Toxicologist Lectureship Award by the American Association of Chinese in Toxicology, the Society of Toxicology.
2211-3835 Peer review under responsibility of Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. doi:10.1016/j.apsb.2012.03.001