Junfang Wu
Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
USA
Biography
Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research. Her areas of expertise include neuroinflammation, neuroprotection, neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury (SCI). She obtained her PhD from Nanjing Medical University, China and Post-Doctoral Training at NIH, USA. She joined the Georgetown University faculty in 2007 and then moved to University of Maryland where she rose to the rank of Associate Professor. Her ongoing NIH-funded research is directed at the understanding the cellular and molecular mechanism of functional recovery after SCI and developing potentially therapeutic strategies.
Research Interest
Spinal cord injury, brain injury, inflammation, autophagy-lysosomal, neuropathic pain, NOX2, cell cycle pathway, microRNA, motor function, cognition, depression, neurons, astrocytes, microglia