Dr. Le received his Bachelor’s degree from Suzhou Medical College in 1978, and his doctoral degree from Shanghai 2nd Medical University in 1988. He did postdoctoral training at Baylor College of Medicine starting in 1989. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1993, Associate Professor in 2000 and Professor in 2005 at Baylor College of Medicine. He has published over 185 SCI papers in peer review journals and 7 scientific books. He has been awarded 26 research grants including 3 NIH R0-1 awards, grants from Michael Fox Foundation, APDA, PDF and NPA. Recently, he received two grant awards from the Helis Foundation to support Parkinson’s disease research. He is a reviewer committee member of NIH, VA, INSERM, Singapore Academy of Science, and the Chinese Nature Science Foundation. He is an editorial board member of six international journals including Autophagy, Neurodegenerative Disease, and is the Academic Editor of Plos One and J Alzheimer’s Disease.

Dr. Le is a neurologist/neuroscientist with research interest in the cellular and molecular basis of neuronal injury in these neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Le’s research program focuses on defining the molecular mechanisms and pathological pathways of three major neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s disease [PD], Alzheimers’s disease, and ALS). Recently he pioneered a linkage study of transcription factors regulating CNS development and neurodegenerative disorders.