Dr. Ran Xu

Ran Xu is a neurosurgeon and a neurobiology researcher at Charité in Berlin, currently enrolled in the BIH Clinician Scientist Program.

She graduated from the Medical School of the Ruprechts-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany. In her dissertation, she worked on neuromuscular plasticity in hibernating ground squirrels at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), and after her studies, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (USA) working on glioma stem cells.

In her current laboratory research, she is interested in studying the immune reaction after hemorrhagic stroke. Her expertise in experimental research (specifically organotypic explants) and her further interests in material sciences and ongoing collaborations with the BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, led to her research contributions to the Cutting project.