Dr. Yingxin Zhao is an associate professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. Her research interest is to understand the molecular mechanism of activation of the X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1)–hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) and glucose metabolic reprogramming in epithelial–mesenchymal transition. Glucose metabolism plays a critical role in airway inflammation and remodeling and cancer. Her research reveals that XBP1-HBP is an essential metabolic node contributing to the pathological changes in the airway remodeling diseases, such as hyperinflammation, epithelial cell-state changes, and excessive ECM deposition. She is also interested in understanding the roles of XBP-HBP in regulating cancer metastasis and invasion. In addition, she is interested in biomarker discovery. She has applied quantitative proteomics approaches to identify the proteins that are diagnostic of diseases, such as dengue fever, invasive aspergillosis infectious disease, and Rickettsia infection.
Dr. Yingxin Zhao is an associate professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. Her research interest is to understand the molecular mechanism of activation of the X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1)–hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) and glucose metabolic reprogramming in epithelial–mesenchymal transition. Glucose metabolism plays a critical role in airway inflammation and remodeling and cancer. Her research reveals that XBP1-HBP is an essential metabolic node contributing to the pathological changes in the airway remodeling diseases, such as hyperinflammation, epithelial cell-state changes, and excessive ECM deposition. She is also interested in understanding the roles of XBP-HBP in regulating cancer metastasis and invasion. In addition, she is interested in biomarker discovery. She has applied quantitative proteomics approaches to identify the proteins that are diagnostic of diseases, such as dengue fever, invasive aspergillosis infectious disease, and Rickettsia infection.