Lijun Xia

Chair of the Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Merrick Foundation Chair in Biomedical Research. Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He received his MD at Binzhou Medical College (China) in 1982 and graduated with his Ph.D. from Soochow University Medical College (China) in 1995. He joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 2002. His work has focused on a group of sugars known as O-glycans, yielding important information about liver disease, cancer and other illnesses.