Xu aims for grasp of cancer spread
When he started college in Shanghai, China in the 1970s, Tian Xu did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He had never even heard of the word “genetics.” But 30 years later, Xu, vice chairman of genetics at the School of Medicine, conducts cutting-edge research with fruit flies, worms and mice that seeks to understand what goes on in genes when cancer strikes.
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