Wen Qiu
Nanjing Medical University, China
Biography
Wen Qiu is currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Immunology, Nanjing Medical University. He is exploring the role of complement especially C5b-9 in the induction of Glomerular Mesangial Cell (GMC) apoptosis, inflammation and proliferation in rat Thy-1 nephritis as a widely used model of human mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (MsPGN) and its mechanisms. These include signal transduction, microRNA regulation, transcriptional factor regulation. He is also exploring the effects of post-transcriptional regulation such as ubiquitination and acetylation on the activation of signaling molecules, transcription factors and histones.