Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Neurology in 2005, currently working as a research instructor with a focus on the treatment and care of multiple sclerosis after joining Dr Zhongqi Xia’s laboratory in 2019. Lili’s main interest includes applying a variety of technologies and her molecular biology background in her daily research, such as constructing various plasma, protein expression and purification, cell culture, isolating PBMC from human blood etc.
Education & Training:
Graduated with a degree of Doctor in Medicine (MD) from the Fujian Medical University, then worked at Fuzhou Infectious Diseases Hospital (now Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University) as a physician until 2001.
Specialized Areas of Clinical, Research and/or Education Interests:
Multiple Sclerosis care and treatment
Selected Recent Publications:
Davis-Porada J, Tozlu C, Aiello C, Apostolidis SA, Bar-Or A, Bove R, Espinoza DA, Ferreira Brito S, Jacobs D, Kakara M, Onomichi K, Ricci A, Sabatino JJ Jr, Walker E, Wherry EJ, Zhang L, Zhu W, Xia Z, De Jager P, Wesley SF, Straus Farber R, Farber DL. Durable T cell immunity to COVID-19 vaccines in MS patients on B cell depletion therapy. NPJ Vaccines. 2025 May 17;10(1):98. doi: 10.1038/s41541-025-01151-8. PubMed PMID: 40382362; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12085558.
Fu H, Huang K, Zhu W, Zhang L, Bandaru R, Wang L, Liu Y, Xia Z. Circulating cell-free DNA methylation profiles as noninvasive multiple sclerosis biomarkers: A proof-of-concept study. medRxiv. 2025 Feb 20;. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.14.25322180. PubMed PMID: 40034794; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11875267
Touil H, Luquez T, Comandante-Lou N, Lee AJ, Fujita M, Habeck C, Kroshilina A, Hegewisch-Solloa E, McInvale J, Zuroff L, Isnard S, Walker E, Zhang L, Routy JP, Zhang Y, Mace EM, Klotz L, Wiendl H, Xia Z, Bar-Or A, Menon V, Stern Y, De Jager PL. Relation of CMV and brain atrophy to trajectories of immunosenescence in diverse populations. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 21;. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.07.614568. PubMed PMID: 39416188; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11482892.
Zhu W, Chen C, Zhang L, Hoyt T, Walker E, Venkatesh S, Zhang F, Qureshi F, Foley JF, Xia Z. Association between serum multi-protein biomarker profile and real-world disability in multiple sclerosis. Brain Commun. 2024;6(1):fcad300. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad300. eCollection 2024. PubMed PMID: 38192492; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10773609.
Zhu W, Dykstra K, Zhang L, Xia Z. Gut Microbiome as Potential Therapeutics in Multiple Sclerosis. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2021 Nov;23(11). doi: 10.1007/s11940-021-00693-1. Epub 2021 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 39877812; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11774507.
