Xiaoxiao Qian
Dr. Xiaoxiao Qian, a neuroscientist/neurobiologist working in the field of stress and depression. After earned her BSc’s degree in Pharmacology and Pharmacy from Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2003, she went to the University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom) to pursue her MSc study in Molecular Neuroendocrinology. After that she went to the University of Oxford (Oxfordshire, United Kingdom) to investigate the brain circuits involved in the pathology of schizophrenia and was rewarded with a D. Phil (PhD) in Neuropharmacology in 2007. Being fascinated by the unknown questions remained in mental diseases, she went back to the University of Bristol and has been investigating the relationship between stress and depression, especially the relationship between hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and stress response-induced glucocorticoid changes in the body.