Dr. Xin Sun

Professor

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Biography

Xin Sun received a Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied Notch signaling in Drosophila under the guidance of Dr. Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas. He underwent postdoctoral training at UCSF, focusing on FGF signaling in mice with Dr. Gail Martin. He was a faculty member in the Laboratories of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2002 to 2016 before relocating his lab to UCSD in 2016. Dr. Sun is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award, the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award, and the Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Additionally, he has been honored with the Donald Leung Lectureship from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. He has served as the Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Mouse Development, Stem Cell, and Cancer course. In his lab, training students and postdoctoral researchers is a top priority, maintaining a welcoming and supportive environment for scientific inquiry.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2016-01-01 — Present

University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA

Leading research on organ development, focusing on the lung and related diseases.

Awards

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Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award

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March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Award

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Romnes Faculty Fellowship

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Donald Leung Lectureship

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).