Translational Acupuncture Research
暫譯: 轉化針灸研究

本專著由來自中國、美國、加拿大及其他國家的多位科學家和臨床醫生撰寫，討論針灸的轉譯研究。除了針灸實踐的一般主題（例如，不同風格和技術的針灸）外，還包括一些難治性疾病，如慢性疲勞症候群、帕金森病、心血管功能障礙、慢性疼痛、腦震盪後症候群、創傷後壓力症候群及癌症相關症狀。影響針灸研究的因素在最後一章中進行了全面探討。這本獨特的書籍不僅為針灸師提供了現代針灸的轉譯視角，還適合神經科學家、神經學家及其他臨床醫生。對於醫學生以及主修生物的本科生和研究生來說，這本書是學習替代醫學和補充醫學進展的進階課程。

Ying Xia is a Fudan Distinguished Professor at Fudan University and the Executive Director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Acupuncture Mechanism and Acupoint Function in Shanghai, China. He obtained his medical training at Soochow Medical College, China. After being a clinical physician for almost 4 years, he pursued his graduate study and obtained a Master Degree of Medicine and a Doctoral Degree of Medical Science (Ph.D.) in Neurobiology and Integrative Medicine at Shanghai Medical University (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University), China. He was then appointed as a lecturer of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology there. Dr. Xia joined Yale University School of Medicine in 1988 for his postdoctoral training and initiated his laboratory at Yale in 1994. During his 22-year academic career at Yale University School of Medicine, he was appointed as a faculty member in 1993 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. From May 2010 to August 2016, he worked at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now the University of Texas McGovern Medical School) and the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston as a Full Professor, Chairman of Research & Promotion Committee and Vice-Chairman for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery. He was recruited by Fudan University in September 2016.

Dr. Xia's early research focused on cardiovascular regulation, interactive modulation of endogenous opioids and other neurotransmitters, and the mechanism of acupuncture. His laboratory currently investigates neural functions of the delta-opioid receptor, neuroprotection against ischemic/hypoxic injury, Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders and acupuncture effects on neurological diseases (e.g., stroke, epilepsy, and hypoxic encephalopathy).

His research has been consecutively supported by NIH, America Heart Association, March of Dimes Foundation, Cerebral Palsy Foundation, The Vivian L. Smith Neurologic Foundation, Memorial Hermann Foundation, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality and the National Natural Science Foundation of China since 1994.

He has been invited to deliver speeches by many academic institutions (e.g., NIH and Harvard University) and international conferences. He has been serving as a manuscript-reviewer for many international journals and as a grant reviewer for NIH, US National Science Foundation, other American foundations (e.g., America Heart Association; US Civilian Research and Development Foundation), European foundations (e.g., Scotland Medical Research of UK; Wellbeing of Women of UK; National Science Center of Poland), Hong Kong University Grants Committees, and Natural Science Foundation of China.

**夏英**是復旦大學的復旦特聘教授，以及中國上海針灸機制與腧穴功能重點實驗室的執行主任。他在中國蘇州醫學院接受醫學訓練。在擔任臨床醫師近四年後，他進一步攻讀研究生學位，並在上海醫科大學（現為復旦大學上海醫學院）獲得醫學碩士學位和醫學科學博士學位（Ph.D.），專攻神經生物學和整合醫學。隨後，他被任命為該校的整合醫學和神經生物學講師。夏博士於1988年加入耶魯大學醫學院進行博士後訓練，並於1994年在耶魯建立了自己的實驗室。在耶魯大學醫學院的22年學術生涯中，他於1993年被任命為教職員，並於2002年晉升為副教授。從2010年5月到2016年8月，他在德克薩斯州休士頓的德克薩斯大學醫學院（現為德克薩斯大學麥戈文醫學院）和德克薩斯大學生物醫學科學研究生院擔任全職教授、研究與推廣委員會主席及神經外科系研究副主席。2016年9月，他被復旦大學聘用。

夏博士早期的研究專注於心血管調節、內源性鴉片類物質和其他神經傳遞物質的互動調節，以及針灸的機制。他的實驗室目前研究δ-鴉片受體的神經功能、對缺血/缺氧損傷的神經保護、帕金森病及其他神經退行性疾病，以及針灸對神經疾病（例如中風、癲癇和缺氧性腦病）的影響。

自1994年以來，他的研究持續獲得美國國立衛生研究院（NIH）、美國心臟協會、March of Dimes基金會、腦性麻痺基金會、Vivian L. Smith神經學基金會、Memorial Hermann基金會、上海市科學技術委員會及中國國家自然科學基金的支持。

他曾受邀在許多學術機構（例如NIH和哈佛大學）及國際會議上發表演講。他還擔任多本國際期刊的稿件審稿人，以及NIH、美國國家科學基金會、其他美國基金會（例如美國心臟協會；美國民間研究與發展基金會）、歐洲基金會（例如英國蘇格蘭醫學研究；英國女性健康；波蘭國家科學中心）、香港大學資助委員會及中國自然科學基金的評審。