Jian-Xing Ma, MD, Ph.D., Laureate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology, graduated from Jiangxi Medical College in China and received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical University of South Carolina.
The combination of his medical background and solid training in basic sciences enables him to apply his molecular biological skills in the investigation of human diseases.
He has focused on diabetic complications since 1994 and has a long track record of independent funding in diabetes research from the NIH, American Diabetes Association (ADA), and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
His group has made significant contributions to the study of diabetic microvascular complications.
He was the first to show experimentally that the balance between pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenic inhibitors is the key determinant of ocular and renal inflammation and angiogenesis.
He is also working as Principal Investigator of COBRE, Mentoring Diabetes Research in Oklahoma