Symposia Speakers

Dr. Yong Xu obtained his medical degree in Tongji Medical University (China) and then Ph.D. degree in University of Alberta (Canada). After a postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas), he established his own research program at Baylor College of Medicine in 2010. In 2025, Dr. Xu moved to University of South Florida where he launched a new research Center for Molecular Psychiatry. Dr. Xu's research aims to reveal the genetic and neural mechanisms for a wide range of behaviors essential for survival (e.g. feeding, learning/memory, mating, parenting, aggression, etc.) and to leverage these basic mechanisms to benefit human health.