Rate My Professor Xiaofeng Jia

Xiaofeng Jia, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., FCCM, is a tenured Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, with secondary appointments in Orthopaedics and Anatomy & Neurobiology. He directs Neurosurgical Stem Cell Research and the Translational NeuroRepair and Regeneration Laboratory. He holds adjunct professorships in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Jia joined the University of Maryland faculty in 2007, following his role as Associate Research Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University from 2004 to 2007. Earlier, he completed a surgery residency at Huashan Hospital, an orthopedic surgery fellowship at Shanghai 6th People's Hospital, and served as an attending surgeon in orthopedics at Shanghai 6th People's Hospital and Zhongshan Hospital. His academic background includes an M.D. in Clinical Medicine from Zhejiang Medical University in 1994, an M.S. in Surgery from Shanghai Medical University in 1997, a Ph.D. in Surgery (Orthopaedics) from Fudan University in 2003, and postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from 2004 to 2007.

Jia's research focuses on regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cell therapy, peripheral nerve injury and regeneration, brain recovery after cardiac arrest, metabolic glycoengineering, brain monitoring and therapeutic hypothermia, spinal cord injury, and bone regeneration. He has authored 158 refereed journal papers, 90 as first or corresponding author, including "Intranasal and intracerebroventricular delivery of metabolically glycoengineered neural stem cells to enhance post-cardiac arrest brain recovery" in Neural Regeneration Research (2025), "Metabolically glycoengineered neural stem cells boost neural repair after cardiac arrest" in Advanced Functional Materials (2024), "Glucose metabolic crosstalk and regulation in brain function and diseases" in Progress in Neurobiology (2021), and "Optimal Electrical Stimulation Boosts Stem Cell Therapy in Nerve Regeneration" in Biomaterials (2018). His research has received funding from NIH RO1, MSCRF, DARPA, and AHA, with highlights in NIH Research Matters and NIH Research Highlights (2015). Among his honors are Society of Critical Care Medicine Star Research Achievement Awards (2021, 2022, 2023), Presidential Citation Awards (2022, 2025), and election as Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (2019). He chairs the SCCM Research Section Steering Committee and serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics section) and Associate Editor for Frontiers journals in immunology, neuroscience, and neurology.