Yun Xia

Team • Li Pin, Stem cell manager • Zhou Bingrui, PhD, Research Fellow • Low Jian Hui, PhD student • Su Chengxun, PhD student • Zhang Tian, Research Assistant Xia Yun is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to this appointment, she had her postdoctoral training at the world-renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, US. Dr Xia obtained her BSc in Biology at China Agricultural University and her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at National University of Singapore. She has been working on stem cell in vitro lineage specification with a special focus on generating kidney-related cells. Her recent work led to the establishment of a novel method to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into kidney ureteric bud progenitor-like cells using chemically defined medium. The generated human kidney cells form chimeric ureteric bud structures upon co-culture with embryonic mouse kidney cells (Fig 1). Her studies have been published in Nature Cell Biology and Nature Protocols, and highlighted by Nature Reviews Nephrology and Faculty 1000.