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Research interests (short)
Antifibrotics, profibrotics and mechanisms of fibrogenesis
Biographical details
Dr. Qihe Xu is Co-Director, King’s Centre for Integrative Chinese Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Department of Renal Medicine; and Faculty member of the MRC Centre for Transplantation and Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, King’s College London.
With some 80 peer-reviewed publications and an H-index of 21, Dr. Xu is a nephrologist and renal cell biologist, with focused research interest in vitamin A derivatives, herbal entities and their roles in inflammation and fibrosis.
Between 2012 and 2014, Dr. Xu has served as Founder Vice President and Vice Secretary-General of the GP-TCM Research Association, an international society and a UK-based charity dedicated to development and dissemination of good practices in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and an Interested Party to the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency.
Between 2009 and 2012, Dr. Xu was the leading scientist of EU’s first Coordination Action dedicated to TCM research under its Seventh Framework Programme. Besides, he was Chairman, Chinese Students and Scholars Association of Central London (CSSA-UCL, 2002-2003); Secretary-General, CSSA-UK (2003-2004); President, Chinese Life Scientists Society in the UK (2007-2009); and Founder Vice President, the Academy of Life Sciences for Chinese in the UK (2008-2009).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Coagulation- and fibrinolysis-mediated renal injury, PLA Postgraduate School of Medicine, Beijing, China.
Award Date: 1 Jan 1998
Doctor of Medicine (research), Disorders of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and renal bone diseases in patients on haemodialysis, Peking (Beijing) University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1992
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, N/A, Xinxiang Medical University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1989
Keywords
- R Medicine (General)
- Renal medicine
- RB Pathology
- Renal pathology
- RZ Other systems of medicine
- tradtional Chinese medicine
- RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
- Anti-fibrotics
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Fermented Ophiocordyceps sinensis mycelium products for preventing contrast-associated acute kidney injury: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Pu, F., Li, T., Shen, C., Wang, Y., Tang, C., Zhang, X., Yan, L., Xu, Q. & Liu, J., 2024, In: Renal Failure. 46, 1, 2300302.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Editorial: Epithelial plasticity and complexity in development, disease and regeneration
Li, J., Takasato, M., Xu, Q. & Bijkerk, R., 12 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10, p. 1105402 1105402.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Chinese Medicine: Use in Context, Creatively
Xu, Q., 1 Jun 2023, In: Integr Med Nephrol Androl . 10, p. 1-5 5 p., e0002910.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Antifibrotic activities of Scutellariae Radix extracts and flavonoids: Comparative proteomics reveals distinct and shared mechanisms
Zhou, S., Yin, X., Yuan, J., Liang, Z., Song, J., Li, Y., Peng, C., Hylands, P. J., Zhao, Z. & Xu, Q., Jun 2022, In: PHYTOMEDICINE. 100, 154049.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Botanicals in health and disease of the testis and male fertility: A scoping review
Shepherd, A., Brunckhorst, O., Ahmed, K. & Xu, Q., Nov 2022, In: PHYTOMEDICINE. 106, p. 154398 154398.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile10 Citations (Scopus)314 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 32 Finished
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Is normalising renal retinoic acid signalling a viable ARPKD therapeutic strategy?
1/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
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Canonical vitamin A signalling in diabetic nephropathy and RA-568 as a novel therapy
Xu, Q., Corcoran, J., Malik, A., Sharpe, C., So, E. & academic, A.
1/09/2017 → 30/09/2020
Project: Research
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Visualising retinoic acid signalling in diabetic nephropathy to inform RARa-targeted therapy
Xu, Q., Corcoran, J., Malik, A., Sharpe, C. & So, E.
1/08/2016 → 31/07/2019
Project: Research
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Retinoic acid in collecting duct cells: Regulation of key processes of polycystic kidney disease
1/10/2015 → 30/09/2016
Project: Research
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Retinoic acid in collecting ducts (Rain-CD): A master regulator of tubolointerstitial defence?
Xu, Q., Sharpe, C., So, E. & academic, A.
1/02/2015 → 31/01/2016
Project: Research
Activities
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Visiting Professorship, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Qihe Xu (Speaker)
15 Oct 2012 → 18 Oct 2012Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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The Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association
Qihe Xu (Committee Member)
28 Apr 2012 → 31 Dec 2014Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Journal)
Qihe Xu (Guest editor)
1 Jan 2012 → 1 Apr 2012Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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The 1st GP-TCM Annual Meeting, Henley Business School, Henley-on-Thames, UK
Qihe Xu (Chair)
28 Jul 2010 → 30 Jul 2010Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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The American Physiological Society
Qihe Xu (Member)
2010 → …Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation
Prizes
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2020 Qihuang International Prize, China Association of Chinese Medicine (CACM)
Xu, Qihe (Recipient), 4 Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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International Society of Nephrology Fellowship
Xu, Qihe (Recipient), 1998
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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International Society of Nephrology Scholarship
Xu, Qihe (Recipient), 1997
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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NIH Courtesy Associate Fellowship (USA)
Xu, Qihe (Recipient), 2005
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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