ProfessorXiao-Ning Xu

Dr Xiao-Ning Xu qualified in Medicine from Capital Medical University (Beijing) and obtained a PhD in Clinical Immunology from Flinders Medical Centre (Australia) and became the fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA) in 1999. He then joined the group of Prof Sir Andrew J. McMichael as NHMRC research fellow at Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

In the past, Xiao-Ning served as Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Clinical Scientist, project leader, and programme leader at MRC Human Immunology Unit, Oxford University, where he led research projects involving immune correlates of protection against emerging infectious diseases including HIV, SARS, and avian influenza. In 2010, he joined Novartis as the Head of Novartis Vaccines Research China, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics based in Shanghai, and in 2013, he became the Chair professor in Human Immunology at the Imperial College London based at South Kensington Campus.

Team (staff)

Ms Sonia Vidal - Group Manager
Ms Parisa Amjadi – FACS Manager
Mr Dominic Smith - Lab Manager
Dr Jia Gao - Post Doc
Dr Shang (Catherine) Yao - Post Doc
Dr Yuxi Qian - Post Doc
Dr Jinjing Ye - (Research fellow)
Dr Peter Kelleher (Reader)
Dr Nesrini Imani (Reader)
Prof Steven Patterson (Hon)

PhD Students

Mr Michael Wang (2023)
Mr Satrawut Charoenla (2023)
Mr Liao Zhang (2024)
Ms Xiaotong Liu (2024)