Xueping Fan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Expertise includes: Protein biochemistry; Signaling pathway study; Cell biology; Molecular genetics; Molecular nephrology; Neuroscience; and Pharmacology.

Publications

  • Published 1/23/2026

    Kumar S, Fan X, Pattam H, Yan K, Liaw EJ, Ji J, Zaltz E, Song P, Jiang Y, Nishizaki Y, Higashi Y, Cai CL, Lu W. Transcription factor ZEB2 is essential for ureteral smooth muscle cell differentiation. PLoS Genet. 2026 Jan; 22(1):e1012028. PMID: 41576029.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/25/2025

    Kumar S, Fan X, Pattam H, Yan K, Liaw EJ, Ji J, Zaltz E, Song P, Jiang Y, Nishizaki Y, Higashi Y, Cai CL, Lu W. ZEB2 signaling is essential for ureteral smooth muscle cell differentiation and maintenance. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 25. PMID: 40060690.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/16/2025

    Hayashi N, Kumar S, Trivin-Avillach C, Fan X, Stoddard SV, Akai R, Fujimoto K, Iwawaki T, Yokoyama H, Furuichi K, Beck LH. Characterization of FAM114A1: a novel podocyte cytoskeleton-associated protein upregulated in glomerular injury. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2025 Feb 01; 328(2):F289-F299. PMID: 39819080.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 3/24/2020

    Pisarek-Horowitz A, Fan X, Kumar S, Rasouly HM, Sharma R, Chen H, Coser K, Bluette CT, Hirenallur-Shanthappa D, Anderson SR, Yang H, Beck LH, Bonegio RG, Henderson JM, Berasi SP, Salant DJ, Lu W. Loss of Roundabout Guidance Receptor 2 (Robo2) in Podocytes Protects Adult Mice from Glomerular Injury by Maintaining Podocyte Foot Process Structure. Am J Pathol. 2020 04; 190(4):799-816. PMID: 32220420.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/9/2018

    Tumelty KE, Higginson-Scott N, Fan X, Bajaj P, Knowlton KM, Shamashkin M, Coyle AJ, Lu W, Berasi SP. Identification of direct negative cross-talk between the SLIT2 and bone morphogenetic protein-Gremlin signaling pathways. J Biol Chem. 2018 03 02; 293(9):3039-3055. PMID: 29317497.

    Read at: PubMed

Education

  • Zhejiang University, MD
  • McGill University, PhD
  • McGill University, MSc