Professor
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Dr. Hsia received his B.Sc. degree from National Taiwan University and later obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1999-2004.
Dr. Hsia has been teaching courses of basic sciences such as pharmacology, immunology, physiology, pharmacogenetics since 2004. Dr. Hsia obtained several NIH research grants as the Principal Investigator: R01 from NINDS, R15 from NEI, and U24 from NIMH.
The current research focus of Dr. Hsia is to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of herpes simplex virus replication during latent infections and reactivation supported by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS). He utilizes tools of molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry to study the effect of viral infection in neuronal cells by nuclear hormonal receptors and to measure cellular responses to the viral replication/gene expression. He also investigated the functions of enhancers for cortex layer specific gene expression delivered by AAVs.
Dr. Hsia is a UMES graduate faculty and now has postdoctoral fellow, Ph.D. students, and undergraduate students working in the lab.