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Minhui Su, PhD

The postdoctoral scholar in neurology has been named a fellow of the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation. One of the primary goals of the foundation is to attract more brilliant minds to childhood brain cancer research. Su will receive a grant of $289,125 in support of her research focused on targeting voltage-sensitive mechanisms of DIPG growth, specifically how membrane depolarization regulates glioma growth in the tumor microenvironment.

Minhui Su
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences

Bio

Minhui Su, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neurology Department. She is investigating neuronal activity-regulated glioma growth, specifically how membrane depolarization regulates glioma growth in the tumor microenvironment. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology, with a focus on neuroimmunology, at the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) at Georg August University Göttingen, Germany. Her PhD research discovered that inflammation is an essential early step of myelin regeneration, and uncovered the roles of microglia (the resident immune cells of the central nervous system) in myelin damage response. She enjoys science, art and hiking in her free time.

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