Where Mitochondrial Disease Research Is Heading

Xinnan Wang is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She led a breakout group at the 2016 Neurobiology of Disease Workshop, From Pediatric Encephalopathy to Alzheimer's: Linking Mitochondria to Neurological Diseases, and presented in the 2017 follow-up webinar, Linking Mitochondria to Neurological Disease. Here, she shares what inspired her to work in the mitochondrial research field, what questions she is trying to answer through her current research, and how she thinks the field can continue to make advances against certain diseases. As told to, and edited by, SfN staff.

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Xinnan Wang, MD, PhD

Xinnan Wang is an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Wang’s main research interests include understanding the regulatory mechanisms that control mitochondrial transport and function in neurons. She received PhD in genetics and neurobiology from the University of Cambridge.