Prof Chen Shao is a doctoral supervisor, chief physician, a high-level entrepreneurial innovation leader in Fujian Province, and a high-level talent in the "Double Hundred Plan" of Xiamen. He graduated from the Air Force Medical University with a doctoral degree in urology and completed postdoctoral research in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently the Deputy Director Xiang'an Hospital of Xiamen University and the head of its Department of Urology. He mainly engaged in mechanism of urogenital tumor metastasis, molecular characteristics of circulating tumor cells, molecular imaging of urinary tumors. He has presided over one major international cooperation project, three NSFC projects, military scientific research projects, and provincial major scientific research and innovation projects. He published twelve SCI-listed papers as either the first and corresponding author in the past five years, and obtained three patents as the first inventor.

Selected publications

1. Yue J, Sun H, Liu S, Yu F, Wang S, Wang F, Shen R, Zhu F, Zhang L, Shao C. Downregulation of NDR1 contributes to metastasis of prostate cancer cells via activating epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Cancer Med. 2018, 7: 3200-12.

2. Liu SJ, Qiao SL, Li LL, Qi GB, Lin YX, Qiao ZY, Wang H, Shao C. Surface charge-conversion polymeric nanoparticle for photodynamic treatment of urinary tract bacterial infections. Nanotechnology. 2015, 26 (49): 495602.

3. Wu JB, Shao C, Li X, Shi C, Li Q, Hu P, Chen YT, Dou X, Sahu D, Li W, Harada H, Zhang Y, Wang R, Zhau HE, Chung LW. Near-infrared fluorescence imaging of cancer mediated by tumor hypoxia and HIF1α/OATPs signaling axis. Biomaterials, 2014, 35 (28): 8175-85.

4. Zhang L, Ji G, Shao Y, Qiao S, Jing Y, Qin R, Sun H, Shao C. MLF1 Interacting Protein: a Potential Gene Therapy Target for Human Prostate Cancer? Med Oncol, 2015, 32 (2): 454.

5. Shao C, Wang Y, Yue HH, Zhang YT, Shi CH, Liu F, Bao TY, Yang ZY, Yuan JL, Shao GX. Biphasic effect of androgens on prostate cancer cells and its correlation with androgen receptor coactivatordopa decarboxylase. J Androl, 2007, 28 (6): 804-12.