Juan LUO

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Title: Associate Professor

Department: Department of Physiology

Email: juanluo@hust.edu.cn

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Research Focus/Interests: to understand the mechanisms of neuronal regeneration after injury

Biography

Dr. Juan Luo is a neuroscientist and an associate professor at the Department of Physiology, Tongji Medical College (TJMC) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). She was awarded ISRT (International Spinal Research Trust (ISRT) studentship and got her Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from Queen Mary University of London. During 2018-2019, she worked as a visiting associate professor in Dr. Oswald Steward’s lab, University of California, Irvine.  Her research works were published in scientific journals, including Glia, Cell death, and diseases.

Education

2011   Queen Mary University of London, UK, Ph. D. in Neuroscience
2004   Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, M.S. in Physiology
2001   Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, B. S. in Medicine

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Member, Society for Neuroscience

Publications

1.	Oswald Steward, Kelly M Yee, Mariajose Metcalfe, Rafer Willenberg, Juan Luo, Ricardo Azevedo, Jacob H Martin-Thompson, Sunil P Gandhi. Rostro-Caudal Specificity of Corticospinal Tract Projections in Mice. Cereb Cortex . 2020 Dec 22;bhaa338. 
2.	Ranran Li, Zhi Huang, Juan Luo, Hongyan Luo, Wei Wang. Downregulation of the CB1-Mediated Endocannabinoid Signaling Underlies D-Galactose-Induced Memory Impairment. Front Mol Neurosci. 2020 Jul 28;13:130. 
3.	Dongsheng Wu, Sena Lee, Juan Luo, Haijian Xia, Svetlana Gushchina, Peter M. Richardson, John Yeh, Ute Krügel, Heike Franke, Yi Zhang and Xuenong Bo; Intraneural injection of ATP stimulates regeneration of primary sensory axons in the spinal cord, J Neurosci, 2018, 38(6):1351-1365.
4.	Luo J, Lee S, Wu D, Yeh J, Ellamushi H, Wheeler AP, Warnes G, Zhang Y, Bo X; P2X7 purinoceptors contribute to the death of Schwann cells transplanted into the spinal cord, Cell Death Dis, 2013, 4:e829.
5.	Luo J, Bo X, Wu D, Yeh J, Richardson PM, Zhang Y*; Promoting the survival, migration, and integration of transplanted Schwann cells by over-expressing polysialic acid; Glia, 2011, 59(3): 424-434.
6.	Wu D, Yang P, Zhang X, Luo J, Haque ME, Yeh J, Richardson PM, Zhang Y, Bo X; Targeting a Dominant Negative Rho Kinase to Neurons Promotes Axonal Outgrowth and Partial Functional Recovery After Rat Rubrospinal Tract Lesion, Mol Ther, 2009, 17(12):2020-30.

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