Wei Hsu

Wei Hsu
Associate Professor
Biomedical Genetics & Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA

Biography

Wei Hsu earned his PhD from Mount Sinai Medical Center and completed a postdoctoral training at Columbia University Medical Center. He has joined the faculty of the University of Rochester since 2002. The interest of his laboratory is to investigate the Morphogenetic Signaling Network in Development and Disease. His work has led to important contributions to our understanding of Wnt signaling and its interplay with other signaling pathways in various developmental processes in health and disease. He has received distinctions including the NKF fellowship award, the DOD IDEA award and the PHS awards from the NIH. He has served as a grant reviewer for NIH, DOD, NSF and private foundations and a referee for the prestigious journals including Science Signaling Development, Developmental Biology, PLoS Genetics and American Journal of Pathology and on the editorial board for Cancer Management and Research Breast CancerTargets and Therapy and International Journal of Women’s Health.

Research Interest

Wei Hsu research interests include Wnt signaling and its interplay with other signaling pathways in various developmental processes in health and disease.