Xu-Dong Zhu

Overview

Xu-Dong Zhu is a full professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster University. Her laboratory research centers on elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the DNA replication stress response, DNA double strand break repair and telomere maintenance. Knowledge gained from these studies is expected to aid in the design of anti-cancer therapeutics and treatment of cancer patients.

Affiliations

• Full Professor
• Faculty of Science, McMaster University
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Associate Member, Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research, McMaster University
• Professor, Biology, Faculty of Science

Education

• BSc, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P. R. China
• MSc, Department of Biochemistry, University of Regina
• PhD, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto
• Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics, Rockefeller University