Our Team

Tulio Valdez, Pediatric Otolaryngologist, PI

Fan of everything Boston except the snow.

Research Interests:
Improving patient outcomes through better diagnostic
surgical and educational tools

Contact: tvaldez1@stanford.edu

Anping Xia, Sr. Research Scientist

Dr. Anping Xia is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in inner ear research. She has been assisting and advising Dr. Valdez on the setup of his lab. She has been working in topical drug delivery and ototoxicity testing in the lab. She also trains and helps junior researchers to achieve their research goals.

In her prior role, she was working in Dr. John Oghalai’s Lab in creating a transgenic mouse model, gene regulation, and gene therapy in the inner ear. In recent years, she also worked on cochlea physiology and cochlea mechanics in different animal models including mouse, gerbil, and chicken.

Contact: apxia@stanford.edu