Minghua Wu, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology
Biography
Dr. Wu was awarded her medical degree from Norman Bethune College of Medicine Jilin University in China and her Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Medical & Dental University in Japan studying skin fibrosis of Scleroderma in the original laboratory that developed bleomycin induced skin fibrosis animal model in SSc. She continued her research of skin fibrosis in SSc as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine at Chicago and at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She joined the faculty as an instructor of Medicine in 2012 and became assistant professor in 2014.
Dr. Wu’s research area is the longstanding focus on elucidating the molecular basis and pathological mechanism of SSc, specifically type I interferon and its downstream signaling pathways in development and progression of autoimmune disease including in its related animal models. With this research program, she was awarded The Mark Flapan Award from Scleroderma Foundation and also currently funded by National Institutes of Health.
Education
- Medical Degree
- Jilin University Norman Bethune College of Medicine/Changchun, China
- Doctoral Degree
- Tokyo Medical & Dental University/Tokyo, Japan
- Residency
- Yanji City Hospital/Yanji, China
- Fellowship
- Rheumatology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine/Chicago IL
- Fellowship
- Rheumatology, The University of Texas Medical School/Houston