Huxing Cui, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Office Phone: (319) 335-6954
Lab Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: huxing-cui@uiowa.edu
Huxing Cui received his PhD in Psychiatry/Neurology from the University of Kobe and completed his postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center and later in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa. In April of 2016, he joined faculty in the Department of Pharmacology to establish his own laboratory. While not working, he enjoys swimming, fishing, playing soccer, and traveling.
Jingwei (Jane) Jiang, MD, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: jingwei-jiang@uiowa.edu
Kenji Saito, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: kenji-saito@uiowa.edu
Kenji was born in Saitama and grew up in Yokohama, Japan. He completed his Bachelor of Physical Education at the Nihon University and his Master of Exercise Physiology at the University of Tsukuba. After working as a research tech in industrial research institutes, Kenji completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the SOKENDAI under the supervision of Prof. Yuchio Yanagawa of the Gunma University. Kenji started his first postdoctoral training at the Baylor College of Medicine to study central regulation of energy metabolism by estrogen receptor alpha. In April of 2016, Kenji moved to Iowa and continue his postdoctoral training focusing on the roles of estrogen-related receptor alpha in behavioral and physiological regulations. He is busy everyday with science, gaming, cooking, and workout.
Uday Singh, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: uday-singh@uiowa.edu
Uday's hometown, Palampur is under the foothills of Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh), India. He completed Ph.D program in Life Sciences at NISER, Bhubaneswar (India). During his PhD his primary focus was on the neuroanatomical substrates regulating endocrine and rewards functions. There he worked on mammalian (rat and mouse) and nonmammalian vertebrates (Fish) species. He joined Department of Pharmacology in July, 2017. As a post-doctoral scholar, he is particularly interested to decipher the divergent neurocircuitry contorting sleep, cardiovascular and metabolic functions. By doing small animal surgeries in different mouse models, he is using state-of-the-art neuroscience tools to achieve his goals.
Guorui (
Gary) Deng, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: guorui-deng@uiowa.edu
Yue (Alvin) Deng
Graduate Research Assistant
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: yue-deng@uiowa.edu
Yue Deng received his B.S. in Pharmacy from Sichuan University in China and later completed M.S. of Pharmacology at the University of Kansas. Fascinated by the elegance and significance of scientific research in human disease, he joined the pharmacology Ph.D. program at the University of Iowa in 2017. He is particularly interested in obesity as well as obesity-related cardiovascular dysfunction, focusing on the CNS mechanisms that are involved in these diseases. Yue enjoys biking, cooking and video gaming in his free time.
Jacob Dickey
Research Intern
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: jacob-dickey@uiowa.edu
Intisar Becic
Undergraduate Student
Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: intisar-becic@uiowa.edu