Xuejuan Tan

Xuejuan Tan received her B. Eng. degree in Food Science and Technology in 2002 and her Ph.D. degree in Microbiology in 2009 from Huazhong Agricultural University, China. Driven by a passion to find a cure for cancer, she then worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Harper Cancer Research Institute, University of Notre Dame. Following this, she served as a research scientist at Hsiri Therapeutics, focusing on preclinical drug development for several human diseases. Currently, she is a member of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Oklahoma State University, where she keeps exploring human immune responses to mycobacterial infection.