Xuyu Qian, PhD
Areas of expertise: Developmental Neuroscience, Stem Cell Biology, Single-Cell Omics
Locations: Main Building
About Xuyu Qian, PhD
Titles
Assistant Professor
Awards and Honors
2025 Innovators and Ideas: Rising Star, Genomic Press
2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Award (selected, declined due to effort conflict), The Warren Alpert Foundation
2024 Krieg Cortical Kudos Award, cash award: $1,500, The Cajal Club
2024 P-SPINE Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
2024 Folkman Research Day Award for Best Short Talk in Basic Science, Harvard Medical School
2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Merit Award
2024 International Society for Stem Cell Research Travel Award
2024 & 2023 Gezhi Science Communication Awards of 2023 and 2022, Bilibili & Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2023 Rising Star in Engineering Health, Cornell University
2023 Japanese Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Travel Award
2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, Class of 2022, Forbes Magazine
2021-2024 Helen Hay Whitney Postdoc Fellowship, award amount: $240,000 over 3 years, The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation & The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2020 Research in Brain Diseases Award, cash award: 11,000 Swiss Franc ($14,000), The Foundation of the University of Zurich
2020-2021 Simons Postdoc Fellowship, award amount: $72,000, Simons Center for the Social Brain
2019 Chinese National Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, cash award: $8,000, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
2017 Bae Gyo Jung Young Investigator Award, cash award: $1,000, Johns Hopkins University
Education & training
Undergraduate Degree
BS in Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
Graduate Degree
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Publications
PubMed
Publications
1. Qian X*#, Coleman K*, Jiang S*, Kriz AJ, Marciano JH, Luo C, Cai C, Manam MD, Caglayan E, Lai A, Exposito-Alonso D, Otani A, Ghosh U, Shao DD, Andersen RE, Neil JE, Johnson R, LeFevre A, Hecht JL, Micali N, Sestan N, Rakic P, Miller MB, Sun L, Stringer C, Li M#, Walsh CA#. (* co-first authors; # co-correspondence authors)Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification. Nature. 2025 May 14;. PMID: 40369074.
2. Qian X*, DeGennaro EM*, Talukdar M, Akula SK, Lai A, Shao DD, Gonzalez D, Marciano JH, Smith RS, Hylton NK, Yang E, Bazan JF, Barrett L, Yeh RC, Hill RS, Beck SG, Otani A, Angad J, Mitani T, Posey JE, Pehlivan D, Calame D, Aydin H, Yesilbas O, Parks KC, Argilli E, England E, Im K, Taranath A, Scott HS, Barnett CP, Arts P, Sherr EH, Lupski JR, Walsh CA. Loss of non-motor kinesin KIF26A causes congenital brain malformations via dysregulated neuronal migration and axonal growth as well as apoptosis. Dev Cell. 2022;57(20):2381-96 e13. PMID: 36228617.
3. Qian X, Su Y, Adam CD, Deutschmann AU, Pather SR, Goldberg EM, Su K, Li S, Lu L, Jacob F, Nguyen PTT, Huh S, Hoke A, Swinford-Jackson SE, Wen Z, Gu X, Pierce RC, Wu H, Briand LA, Chen HI, Wolf JA, Song H, Ming GL. Sliced Human Cortical Organoids for Modeling Distinct Cortical Layer Formation. Cell Stem Cell. 2020;26(5):766-81 e9. Epub 2020/03/07. PMID: 32142682.
4. Qian X*, Jacob F*, Song MM, Nguyen HN, Song H, Ming GL. Generation of human brain region-specific organoids using a miniaturized spinning bioreactor. Nature Protocols. 2018;13(3):565-80. PMID: 29470464. Cover image.
5. Qian X*, Nguyen HN*, Song MM, Hadiono C, Ogden SC, Hammack C, Yao B, Hamersky GR, Jacob F, Zhong C, Yoon KJ, Jeang W, Lin L, Li Y, Thakor J, Berg DA, Zhang C, Kang E, Chickering M, Nauen D, Ho CY, Wen Z, Christian KM, Shi PY, Maher BJ, Wu H, Jin P, Tang H, Song H, Ming GL. Brain-Region-Specific Organoids Using Mini-bioreactors for Modeling ZIKV Exposure. Cell. 2016;165(5):1238-54. PMID: 27118425.