Education

Teaching

• CHM 414/514 Biochemistry Laboratory
• CHM 416 Computer Methods in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics
• CHM 511 Biochemistry I
• CHM 550 Methods in Structural Biology

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Biochemistry
• Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology MS, PhD
• Chemistry BS, BS/MS
• Chemistry and Biochemistry PhD
• Chemistry / Biochemistry MS

Research

Research awards

• $ 701,761 awarded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Developing Cyclopeptide Nef Inhibitors to Facilitate HIV-1 Eradication
• $ 531,301 awarded by NIH-National Institutes of Health for Elucidating the Structural Bases of HIV-1-Induced CD4 Degradation
• $ 538,606 awarded by The National Institute of Health for Developing Cyclopeptide Nef Inhibitors to Facilitate HIV-1 Eradication
• $ 155,583 awarded by University of Pittsburgh for Understanding the Mechanisms of HIV-1-Induced CD4 Degradation Using Structural Biology

Research

Research interests

• Understanding the immune evasion strategies used by the HIV-1 virus at the molecular and structural level

Dr. Jia is trained as a biochemist and structural biologist. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State University under the guidance of Drs. James Geiger and Babak Borhan, where he investigated the wavelength regulation mechanism in primate color vision. Dr. Jia then moved to Dr. Yong Xiong’s lab at Yale University for his postdoctoral research and worked on elucidating how the HIV-1 virus disables antiviral mechanisms by forcing protein mistrafficking. He joined the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UMass Dartmouth in fall 2016. Research in his lab continues to focus on understanding the immune evasion strategies used by the HIV-1 virus at the molecular and structural level.

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Mentioned in

• Oct 27, 2023 Linh Dan Nguyen '25: Changing the world
• Aug 15, 2023 Xiaofei Jia awarded two NIH R01 grants to study HIV-1 eradication