Top Researchers
Top Medicine Researchers at University of South Carolina for 2026
At the University of South Carolina, recent scholarship in Medicine spans population health, clinical research, and basic science. Looking across the last year of work, a clear picture emerges of researchers tackling interconnected questions around infectious disease, physiology, and the social and behavioral factors that shape health.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of featured researchers whose recent publications reflect that range. Their work touches on HIV care, nutrition security, tobacco policy, cardiometabolic health, and translational studies that connect lab findings with clinical questions.
Featured Researchers
Xiaoming Li
Xiaoming Li’s recent work at the University of South Carolina centers on health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and infectious diseases, with studies on HIV care, air pollution, and cardiovascular risk.
Activity over the last year: 34 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Changes in mental health care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV in the USA: a retrospective cohort study using the All of Us dataset (Jul 2025)
- Effects of air pollution and noise exposure on occupational hearing loss in oil workers: a prospective cohort study (Jul 2025)
- Sex differences in cardiovascular disease and associated factors in people living with HIV : Evidence from All of Us program (Nov 2025)
James F. Thrasher
James F. Thrasher’s recent publications from the University of South Carolina connect physiology, applied psychology, and organizational behavior to tobacco use, sugary drink norms, and youth smoking policy.
Activity over the last year: 26 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Perceived healthiness of sugary drinks and related social norms among adults in five countries: evidence from the International Food Policy Study (Jan 2025)
- Trends in Mental Health Symptoms, Nicotine Product Use, and Their Association Over Time Among Adolescents in Canada, England, and the US: Findings From the ITC Adolescents Tobacco and Vaping Survey, 2020–2023 (Jan 2025)
- Joint impact of cigarette taxes and smoke-free laws on youth cigarette smoking and related disparities in the USA (Apr 2025)
Jiajia Zhang
Jiajia Zhang’s work at the University of South Carolina spans statistics and probability, infectious diseases, and modeling and simulation, with recent papers on oncology trials, food-related metabolic signatures, and chronic kidney disease.
Activity over the last year: 28 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- First-line cadonilimab plus chemotherapy in HER2-negative advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma: a randomized, double-blind, phase 3 trial (Jan 2025)
- Metabolomic and Proteomic Signatures of Ultra-processed Foods Are Positively Associated with Adverse Liver Outcomes (May 2025)
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (Apr 2025)
Edward A. Frongillo
Edward A. Frongillo’s recent publications from the University of South Carolina focus on nutrition and dietetics, general health professions, and public health, including nutrition security measurement and child growth assessment.
Activity over the last year: 25 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Monitoring Nutrition Security: Perspectives from a Workshop on Nutrition Security Measurement (Jul 2025)
- Perspective: Can Growth Monitoring and Promotion Accurately Diagnose or Screen for Inadequate Growth of Individual Children? A Critical Review of the Epidemiologic Foundations (Jan 2025)
- Prevalence and predictors of intimate partner violence against men in Kisumu slums, Kenya (Jun 2025)
Shan Qiao
Shan Qiao’s University of South Carolina research brings together infectious diseases, epidemiology, and clinical psychology, with recent studies on HIV care, mental health care use, and neuroinflammation.
Activity over the last year: 20 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Neutrophil extracellular traps in central nervous system disorders: mechanisms, implications, and emerging perspective (May 2025)
- Changes in mental health care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV in the USA: a retrospective cohort study using the All of Us dataset (Jul 2025)
- Telehealth or in-person HIV care? Qualitative study findings on decision-making from people with HIV and HIV care providers in South Carolina during the COVID-19 pandemic (Apr 2025)
Xueying Yang
Xueying Yang’s recent work at the University of South Carolina sits at the intersection of infectious diseases, epidemiology, and emergency medicine, with studies on biological aging, mortality, and HIV viral load patterns.
Activity over the last year: 18 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Association of clinical biomarker-based biological age and aging trajectory with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in Chinese adults: a population-based cohort study (Mar 2025)
- Changes in mental health care utilisation before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among people living with HIV in the USA: a retrospective cohort study using the All of Us dataset (Jul 2025)
- Longitudinal Viral Load Clustering for People With HIV Using Functional Principal Component Analysis (Jan 2025)
Camilla F. Wenceslau
Camilla F. Wenceslau’s University of South Carolina publications emphasize physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology, including mechanistic studies of blood pressure, vascular function, and diabetes-related dysfunction.
Activity over the last year: 20 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Single-Short Partial Reprogramming of the Endothelial Cells Decreases Blood Pressure via Attenuation of EndMT in Hypertensive Mice (Sep 2025)
- Overexpression of adipose tissue ERα enhances PVAT anticontractility via NOX4-derived H2O2 and is protective against high-fat diet-induced dysfunction (Mar 2025)
- Relaxant Effect of Menthol on the Pudendal Artery and Corpus Cavernosum of Lean and db/db Mice: A Refreshing Approach to Diabetes-Associated Erectile Dysfunction (May 2025)
Fernanda Priviero
Fernanda Priviero’s recent University of South Carolina work spans psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, with publications on sexual medicine and vascular relaxation.
Activity over the last year: 17 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Basic science and translational research: recommendations from the Fifth International Consultation for Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024) (Jul 2025)
- Relaxant Effect of Menthol on the Pudendal Artery and Corpus Cavernosum of Lean and db/db Mice: A Refreshing Approach to Diabetes-Associated Erectile Dysfunction (May 2025)
- Comment on: Heme, the HO–CO–sGC–cGMP pathway, and corpus cavernosum contractility: new insights into the pathophysiology of priapism in sickle cell disease (Oct 2025)
What University of South Carolina's Medicine Community Is Working On
The most common themes across this group are infectious diseases, physiology, and epidemiology, showing a strong mix of clinical, mechanistic, and population-level research. That combination suggests an active community working on HIV care, chronic disease risk, vascular biology, and the measurement of health outcomes, while also connecting these topics to behavioral health, nutrition, and public health practice.- Infectious Diseases - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Physiology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Epidemiology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
Taken together, these researchers show how medicine at the University of South Carolina is moving across disciplines and methods to address real health needs. If you’re exploring similar literature, tools like Resub can help streamline citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission preparation for your own workflow.
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