Yu Jie

Profile: Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona. PhD from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University (2015), Zhejiang University Institute of Neuroscience. Selected for the first cohort of the Zhejiang Provincial Higher-Education Leading Talent Training Program (Project 5246) as "High-Level Distinguished Talent"; committee member of the Pharmaceutical and Rehabilitation Professional Committee, Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; vice chair of the Youth Committee of Immunology, Zhejiang Association of Integrative Medicine; awardee of the ZCMU Project 5151 talent program ("Yuanzhi Youqing"). Peer reviewer for Chem Biol Interact, Neurochem Int, and other journals.

Research: Pathogenesis and neuropharmacology of neuroimmune system disorders such as chronic pain and rheumatoid arthritis, and pharmacological research on Chinese medicine for rheumatic immune diseases. This includes CRMP2-related proteins regulating neuroimmune cells and related pathways, mechanisms of chronic pain in rheumatic immune diseases, neuroimmune mechanisms in central and peripheral sensitization, and related TCM pharmacology. PI of one NSFC General Project, one NSFC Youth Project, and one Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation project. Author of more than 40 SCI papers, mainly in PAIN, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Communications Biology, Neurobiology of Disease, Molecular Neurobiology, and other leading international journals.