Ruosen "Alex" Xie, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Scientist I
Biography
Keywords: Gene therapy, nonviral delivery, genome editing, photoreceptor, retinal pigment epithelium, and tissue engineering
Education
B.Eng. 2016, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
MS 2018, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
PhD 2021, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
Research
Dr. Xie’s research investigates non-viral delivery of nucleic acids and genome editors for gene therapy in the retina. He also studies biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric micropatterned scaffolds for photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelium transplantation.