Ziyan obtained her PhD degree from School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University (2016-2020), and received PhD training in Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University (2020-2025). During her doctoral study, she mainly focused on cancer proteogenomics and spatial proteomics.

Representative Publications

1. Ziyan Xu#, Yunzhi Wang#, Tao Xie, Hang Xiang, Rongkui Luo, Shaoshuai Tang, Subei Tan, Rundong Fang, Peng Ran, Qiao Zhang, Xiaomeng Xu, Sha Tian, Fuchu He, Wenjun Yang*, Chen Ding*. (2025) Panoramic spatial enhanced resolution proteomics (PSERP) reveals tumor architecture and heterogeneity in gliomas. Journal of Hematology & Oncology.
2. Qilin Zhang#, Ziyan Xu#, Rui Han#, Yunzhi Wang#, Zhen Ye#, Jiajun Zhu#, Yixin Cai#, Fan Zhang#, Jiangyan Zhao#, Boyuan Yao, Zhaoyu Qin, Nidan Qiao, Ruofan Huang, Jinwen Feng, Yongfei Wang, Wenting Rui, Fuchu He*, Yao Zhao*, Chen Ding*. (2024) Proteogenomic characterization of skull-base chordoma. Nature Communications.