Before coming to the United States, Dr. Xi earned his MD and PhD in China and was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France. Dr. Xi won the Scholar-In-Training Award for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He is an author of publications in Cell Death and Differentiation, Oncogene, Clinical Cancer Research, Carcinogenesis, RNA, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE, and more. Dr. Xi is a member of Editorial Boards of Thoracic Cancer, TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, and Micro RNA. He was also invited to be a reviewer for a number of journals and research grant foundations.