The UIHC Center for Hypertension Research and the Department of Pharmacology are pleased to announce that Huxing Cui, Ph.D. joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor on April 1, 2016.  His recruitment was a collaboration with the Fraternal Order of the Eagle’s Diabetes Research Center and the Obesity Research and Education Initiative. His research interests are to 1) identify novel signaling pathways and neural circuits that regulate metabolism and feeding behavior relating to obesity and eating disorder, and 2) investigate the role of distinct hypothalamic circuits in sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure regulation.  Dr. Cui received his BA degree in Medicine from Yanbian University College of Medicine in China, and his Ph.D. from Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.  He performed a short postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neuroscience at the Osaka Bioscience Institute in Japan before joining the Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.  He joined the Lutter laboratory at the University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry, in 2012, and was promoted to Associate in 2014.  His research findings were published in Cell Reports, Diabetes, and Journal of Clinical Investigation, among other journals. Dr. Cui has received a 5-year R01 grant from the NHLBI to study “Lateral hypothalamic regulation of sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure”, and a 2-year R21 grant from the NIMH to study “Behavioral characterization of humanized mouse model of eating disorder”. 

 Please join us in welcoming Huxing.