Dr. Xu recieved his BDS from Henan Medical University, China, in 2000. Upon his graduation, he went to Hiroshima University, Japan, for his peridontal training combined with a PhD majored as tissue engineering in perodontal application. After he came to Unitied States, he joined Boston University Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry and recieved his second dental degree (DMD) and periodontal certificate from 2010 to 2015. 

Dr. Xu continues to conduct research in tissue engineering applied to the dental field. In addition, he is faculty at Boston University Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, and leads the school’s dental implant research group. 

Reviewer for Journals

• Cell Biology International
• Cell Transplantation: The Regenerative Medicine Journal
• Oral Diseases
• Implant Dentistry
• PLOS ONE

Journal Publications
1. Synthetic polymeric barrier membrane associated with blood coagulum, human allograft, or bovine bone substitute for ridge preservation: a randomized, controlled, clinical and histological trial. Santana R, Gyurko R, Kanasi E, Xu WP, Dibart S. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2019 May;48(5):675-683. doi: 10.1016/j.ijom.2018.02.012. Epub 2018 Nov 7.

2. A randomized, controlled, clinical and histologic trial evaluating a synthetic polymeric barrier membrane and mineralized ground cancellous human allograft in human extraction sites. Ronaldo Santana, Robert Gyurko, Eleni Kanasi, Wang-Peng Xu, Serge Dibart. JOMI accepted

3. A novel function for lysyl oxidase in pluripotent mesenchymal cell proliferation and relevance to inflammation-associated osteopenia. Khosravi R, Sodek KL, Xu WP, Bais MV, Saxena D, Faibish M, Trackman PC. PLoS One. 2014 Jun 27;9(6):e100669. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100669. eCollection 2014.

4. Accurately shaped tooth bud cell-derived mineralized tissue formation on silk scaffolds. Xu WP, Zhang
W, Asrican R, Kim HJ, Kaplan DL, Yelick PC. Tissue Eng Part A. 2008 Apr;14(4):549-57. doi: 10.1089/tea.2007.0227.

5. Effect of neurotrophins on differentiation, calcification and proliferation in cultures of human pulp cells. Mizuno N, Shiba H, Xu WP, Inui T, Fujita T, Kajiya M, Takeda K, Hasegawa N, Kawaguchi H, Kurihara H. Cell Biol Int. 2007 Dec;31(12):1462-9. Epub 2007 Jul 17.

6. Promotion of functioning of human periodontal ligament cells and human endothelial cells by nerve growth factor. Xu WP, Mizuno N, Shiba H, Takeda K, Hasegawa N, Yoshimatsu S, Inui T, Ozeki Y, Niitani M, Kawaguchi H, Tsuji K, Kato Y, Kurihara H. J Periodontol. 2006 May;77(5):800-7.

7. Characterization of epithelial cells derived from periodontal ligament by gene expression patterns of bone-related and enamel proteins. Mizuno N, Shiba H, Mouri Y, Xu W, Kudoh S, Kawaguchi H, Kurihara H. Cell Biol Int. 2005 Feb;29(2):111-7.

8. Effect of bone morphogenetic proteins-4, -5 and -6 on DNA synthesis and expression of bone-related proteins in cultured human periodontal ligament cells. Xu WP, Shiba H, Mizuno N, Uchida Y, Mouri Y, Kawaguchi H, Kurihara H. Cell Biol Int. 2004;28(10):675-82.

9. Enhancement of alkaline phosphatase synthesis in pulp cells co-cultured with epithelial cells derived from lower rabbit incisors.Shiba H, Mouri Y, Komatsuzawa H, Mizuno N, Xu W, Noguchi T, Nakamura S, Sugai M, Kato Y, Kurihara H. Cell Biol Int. 2003;27(10):815-23.