Dr. Lijuan Ma is an assistant professor at Dr. Neher’s Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Sun Yat-sen University, where her research focused on DNA replication mechanisms and their implications for cancer therapy. Following this, she spent two years researching cell cycle regulation during mitosis before joining Dr. Gerald R. Smith's lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for postdoctoral training in the study of meiosis, another specific cell cycle.
Dr. Ma's current research interests revolve around three main areas: 1. Investigating age-related aneuploidy in human eggs and its impact on female fertility decline and early miscarriage. 2. Exploring the connection between aneuploidy and cancer. 3. Studying the molecular mechanisms underlying meiosis.
Dr. Haijie Yu is an Associate Professor currently working at Dr. Neher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. He holds a PhD in Physiology from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Dr. Yu has a broad range of experience, having served as a Postdoc Fellow at LCMS, the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, HI, USA, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. He also held positions as a Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Biophysics and Physiology and the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. Additionally, he worked as an acting instructor at the Department of Neurology, University of Washington.
His research focuses on several areas, including the functional study of ion channels, tumor immunology, and the development of novel anticancer drugs derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
