Faculty

Education

1. M.D., Shandong University, School of Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China, 1993

2. Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
   Joint degree program training at: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000

Internship

1. Qilu Hospital, School of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 1992-1993

Residency

1. Resident and Chief Resident, Departments of Radiology and Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Beijing, China, 1993-1996
   Rotation training at Radiology Department for: X-rays, GI contrast, CT scan, MRI, Ultrasonography, Catheter lab; and Department of Medicine for: Emergency medicine, ICU, CCU, Cardiology, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Gastroenterology, Oncology/Hematology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology

Fellowship

1. Clinical Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China, 1996-1998
   Training for endoscope, ERCP, and pancreatic cancer diagnosis

2. Research Fellow, Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Department of Bioscience at Novum, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, 1998-2000
   Training for molecular epidemiology of Cancer

Specialty

1. Molecular Epidemiology

Board Certification

1. Certifications of Radiology and Medicine by Chinese Ministry of Health, Beijing, China, 1993

Area of Interest

1. Human genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis

2. Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Current Position

1. Assistant Professor of Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Positions Held

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2006-Present

2. Postdoctoral Associate and Lab Supervisor, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, 2000-2006
   Training for population-based molecular epidemiology on human genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis. FDA Clinical Trials: T-spot (Oxford Immunotech, Inc.); QuantiFERON-TB (Cellestis, Inc.)

3. Scientific Director (volunteer), Katharine Hsu International Research Center of Human Infectious Diseases (KICID), Shandong Provincial Department of Health, China, 2004-Present. Supervising the international collaborative projects (BCM-China) on tuberculosis control, and molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis

Honors and Awards

1. The Award of Excellent Medical Resident, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, 1995

2. Scholarship of Zhou Zi-Zhuan Foundation, Graduate School of PUMC, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 1996

3. Research Fellowship, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, 1997

4. Member of Shandong Council of Tuberculosis Control, 2004

5. Travel Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2004

6. Member of Board of Directors, Katharine Hsu Foundation, 2004

7. Founder, Hopson Medical Education and Development System, 2005

8. Featured TV Presentation on Chinese National Education Channel, 2006

Representative Publications

1. Moran A, Ma X, Graviss E (2006). No Evidence of Association between the +874T/A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the First Intron of the Interferon-gamma Gene and Human Susceptibility to Tuberculosis. (in press)

2. Ma X, Wang H, Deng Y, Liu Z, Pan X, Musser J, Graviss E (2006). RpoB gene Mutations and Molecular Characterization of Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Shandong Province, China. J Clin Microbiol 44:3409-3412

3. Qiu L, Teeter L, Liu Z, Ma X, Musser J, and Graviss E (2006), Diagnostic Associations between Pleural and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. J Infect 53:377-386

4. Porsa E, Cheng L, Seale M, Delclos G, Ma X, Reich R, Musser J, Graviss E (2006). Comparing a new interferon-gamma assay to tuberculin skin test for detection of latent tuberculosis infection in a moderate risk population Clin Vaccine Immunol 13:53-58

5. Graviss, E, Ma X, Fu Y (2004). Reply to interleukin-8 polymorphism is not associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in The Gambia. J nfect Dis 189:1546

6. Ma X, Reich R, Wright J, Tooker H, Teeter L, Musser J, Graviss E (2003). No evidence for association between the polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of interleukin-12B and human susceptibility to tuberculosis. J Infect Dis 188:1116-1118

7. Ma X, Reich R, Wright J, Tooker H, Teeter L, Musser J, and Graviss E (2003). Association between IL-8 gene and human tuberculosis susceptibility. J Infect Dis 188:349-355

8. Hemminki K, Jiang Y, Ma X, Yang K, Egevad L, Lindblad P (2002). Molecular epidemiology of VHL gene mutations in renal cell carcinoma patients: relation to dietary and other factors. Carcinogenesis 2 23:809-815

9. Smeds J, Berggren P, Ma X, Xu Z, Hemminki K and Kumar R (2002). Genetic status of cell cycle regulators in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus: the CDKN2A (p16INK4a and p14ARF) and p53 genes are major targets for inactivation. Carcinogenesis 23:645-655

10. Ma X, Wright J, Dou SJ, Olsen P, Teeter L, Adams G, Graviss E (2002). Ethnic divergence and linkage disequilibrium of novel SNPs in the human NLI-IF gene: evidence of human origin and lack of association with tuberculosis susceptibility. J Hum Genet 47:140-145

11. Ma X, Dou S, Wright J, Reich R, Teeter L, El Sahly H, Musser J and Graviss E (2001). 5'Dinucleotide Repeat Polymorphism of NRAMP1 and susceptibility to tuberculosis among caucasian patients in Houston, Texas. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 6(9):818-823

12. Ma X, Yang K, Lindblad P, Egevad L, Hemminki K (2001). VHL gene alterations in renal cell carcinoma patients: novel hotspot mutations and linkage disequilibrium. Oncogene 20:5393-5400

13. Ma X, Jin Q, Forsi A, Hemminki K, and Kummar R (2000). Single nucleotide polymorphism analyses of the human proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and FLAP endonuclease (FEN1) genes. Int J Cancer 88:938-942

14. Chen Z, Ma X, and Yan H (1996). CT evaluation in diagnosis of the pulmonary metastasis of malignant trophoblastic tumors. Chin J Radiol 30:682-685

15. Chen Z, Ma X, and Yan H. X-ray diagnosis and embryologic basis of the bronchogenic cyst (1995). J Clin Radiol 14:154-157