According to the university’s website, Xia became a full-time research professor and principal investigator in November at the College of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, which is also known as the National Key Laboratory of Highly Pathogenic Viruses and Biosafety in Chinese.
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Xia, whose research covers structural biology, virology, and pathogenic microorganisms, conducted postdoctoral research at UCLA from 2018 to 2024.
Specifically, the virologist has long focused on the structural and functional relationships of protein complexes associated with pathogenic microorganisms and human diseases.
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This process involves techniques such as single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), according to his university profile.