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Xiaoxiao Sun, PhD

Title(s) Assistant Researcher, Pharmaceutical Chemistry School School of Pharmacy Address 1700 4th Street, #409San Francisco CA 94158 vCard Download vCard

Biography education and training

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai	Ph.D	Tumor pharmacology
Nanjing University, Nanjing	B.Sc	Chemistry

Overview overviewXiaoxiao received her PhD in Cancer Pharmacology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she did mechanistic studies and development of selective anti-cancer therapies using natural and synthetic compounds. Currently, she is studying how microenviron-mental factors influence drug response and lead to drug resistance. Bibliographic selected publications Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Researchers can login to make corrections and additions, or contact us for help. to make corrections and additions. Newest | Oldest | Most Cited | Most Discussed | Timeline | Field Summary | Plain Text Altmetrics Details PMC Citations indicate the number of times the publication was cited by articles in PubMed Central, and the Altmetric score represents citations in news articles and social media. (Note that publications are often cited in additional ways that are not shown here.) Fields are based on how the National Library of Medicine (NLM) classifies the publication's journal and might not represent the specific topic of the publication. Translation tags are based on the publication type and the MeSH terms NLM assigns to the publication. Some publications (especially newer ones and publications not in PubMed) might not yet be assigned Field or Translation tags.) Click a Field or Translation tag to filter the publications.

1. Altered neural reward activation predicts clinical depression improvement after a novel loving-kindness meditation: a multimodal neuroimaging study. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2025 Oct; 353:112059. Chen Z, Cui C, Sun X, Xiang W, Liang F, Dai Q. PMID: 40889474. View in: PubMed Mentions:
2. Targeting PRMT1 Reduces Cancer Persistence and Tumor Relapse in EGFR- and KRAS-Mutant Lung Cancer. Cancer Res Commun. 2025 01 01; 5(1):119-127. Sun X, Kumbier K, Gayathri S, Steri V, Wu LF, Altschuler SJ. PMID: 39699269; PMCID: PMC11747858. View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields: Neo Neoplasms Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
3. Targeting therapy-persistent residual disease. Nat Cancer. 2024 Sep; 5(9):1298-1304. Sun X, Wu LF, Altschuler SJ, Hata AN. PMID: 39289594; PMCID: PMC12160366. View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields: Neo Neoplasms Translation:HumansAnimals
4. Modulating environmental signals to reveal mechanisms and vulnerabilities of cancer persisters. Sci Adv. 2022 01 28; 8(4):eabi7711. Sun X, Bieber JM, Hammerlindl H, Chalkley RJ, Li KH, Burlingame AL, Jacobson MP, Wu LF, Altschuler SJ. PMID: 35089788; PMCID: PMC8797778. View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields: Sci Science Translation:Humans
5. Differential toxicity to murine small and large intestinal epithelium induced by oncology drugs. Commun Biol. 2022 01 27; 5(1):99. Bieber JM, Sanman LE, Sun X, Hammerlindl H, Bao F, Roth MA, Koleske ML, Huang L, Aweeka F, Wu LF, Altschuler SJ. PMID: 35087225; PMCID: PMC8795448. View in: PubMed Mentions: 3Translation:AnimalsCells

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Year	Publications
2022	2
2024	1
2025	2

This graph shows the number and percent of publications by field. Fields are based on how the National Library of Medicine (NLM) classifies the publications' journals and might not represent the specific topics of the publications. Note that an individual publication can be assigned to more than one field. As a result, the publication counts in this graph might add up to more than the number of publications the person has written. To see the data as text, click here. This graph shows the number and percent of publications by field. Fields are based on how the National Library of Medicine (NLM) classifies the publications' journals and might not represent the specific topics of the publications. Note that an individual publication can be assigned to more than one field. As a result, the publication counts in this graph might add up to more than the number of publications the person has written. To see the data as text, click here. Start with: newest oldest Include: line numbers double spacing all authors publication IDs Xiaoxiao's Networks Concepts (33) Derived automatically from this person's publications.

• Protein-Arginine N-Methyltransferases
• Neoplasm, Residual
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
• Repressor Proteins
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local

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