Bin Xu

Bin Xu, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a Principal Investigator in the BRITE Research Institute, and co-director of Neurobehavioral Core at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC, United States. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Duke/UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC). He leads a Translational Aging and Neurodegeneration Laboratory, focusing on 1) new tau- and TDP-43-based biomarker discovery and development for AD and ADRD including TDP-43 proteinopathies with ultrasensitive detection technologies, 2) small molecule and peptide-based drug discovery for AD and ADRD. He received Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fudan University and PhD in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University. After postdoctoral fellowship in Structural Molecular Immunology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he was an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Virginia Tech before being recruited to BRITE at th