Big congratulations to the Evandro Fang lab postdoc Dr. Jun-ping Pan in securing a prestigious 3-year postdoc fellowship from the Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen (The National Association for Public Health), Norway. In this project, Dr. Pan will be investigating novel molecular mechanisms that lead to compromised garbage clearance in old age, especially in patients suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. He will be using animal models combined with human sampels to address the questions.
About Jun-ping Pan
Junping obtained his Master’s degree from the Neuropharmacology Department of Jinan University under the supervision of Professor Huan-min Luo in 2018. He is mainly engaged in research on how methyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate induces neural stem cells to differentiate into cholinergic neurons in vitro. Junping worked in the Neurosurgery Department of Guangdong Women and Children’s Medical Center in 2019. He received doctoral degree in immunology from the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jinan University under the supervision of Professor Guobing Chen and Evandro F. Fang in 2022. His PhD project was focused on ULK1 abrogation of memory loss and pathologies in 5XFAD and hTau.P301S murine models of Alzheimer’s disease. In his postdoc programme, he is continuing to study the mechanics of ULK1 in AD and the role of ULK1 in healthy aging. He is also studying the role of traditional Chinese medicine in inducing mitophagy to improve AD. His hobbies are hiking, boxing, swimming, and gourmet cooking.
See details: https://nasjonalforeningen.no/om-oss/aktuelt/forskningsbevilgninger-2024/
Evandro Fang Lab 
How good! The best of luck with this interesting project!
Jon