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"As you step out on the road I'll say a prayer. So that in my heart you always will be there.This is not goodbye, I know we'll meet again. So let your life begin because this is not goodbye. It's just "I love you" to take with you until you're home again"
"当你踏上旅程,我会为你祈祷,这样你会一直留在我内心深处。这不是告别,我知道我们会再次相见。开启你新的生命吧,因为,这不是告别;带着我对你的爱上路吧,直到你归来。"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqaXXxp2GgE




January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
希望Dr. Xie走好 不再有痛苦 他是我们心中的良师益友 给过我们很多帮助 我们不会忘记他的 永远活在心中— 张珏
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
I worked with Jian for many years in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Medical College of Ohio/University of Toledo. He was a great scientist and a wonderful person. He was a loving husband, father, and friend. He will be greatly missed. My condolences to Yahong, Joe, and Jeff.
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
Jian, you were such a wonderful mentor, supervisor and very dear friend, who became family to us. You lead us to the amazing world of scientific research. Your enthusiasm, compassion, resilience and tremendous courage inspired us, and your spirit will continue to guide us for many years to come. We love you! You will be forever missed!  -----Jason and Ting
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
我很感恩我们见到了Jian, 我见到他的那一刻很伤心,但是我也很高兴见到他,和他说话,说让他好好休息,以后还会去看他。我相信我们以后还会见面,再见面的时候他没有疾病和痛苦,还是那个英俊帅气,才华横溢,令人尊敬的师长。他还会经常带我们回家,摆上丰盛美味的佳肴,让我们在国外不觉得孤单,鼓励我们在学业事业上勇往直前。他是我们的榜样,永远带领着我们!我们会永远记住他!----Catherine Liu
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
谢老师一路走好!--Qiqi
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
为人师表,大师风范!谢教授一路走好!---Lifeng Ma
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
恩师愿你在天堂安好!-----Yiliang Chen
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
天堂没有痛苦!愿谢老师一路走好!----Fangfang
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
今天这个日子,我们不只记得心痛,还记得一位朋友,一位师长。-----JT
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
Dr. Xie Rest In Peace, you will be missed by us very much. May God is with you forever.--- Jian Wu
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
May God hold and keep Jian forever. ---Jiang Liu
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
一代大师驾鹤西去,深切怀念谢老师!谢老师一路走好!  ------Zhongbin Zhang
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
Sorry to hear the sad news. Dr Xie will be missed by us. He is a great mentor to his students!---Yonghua Jing
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
谢教授一路走好[Sob][Sob][Sob]。 ----白燕
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
I am so sorry to hear about this and feel so sad since Jian is a very nice person and respected mentor. I cannot believe this is true. I hope he will not have hard time anymore in heaven. —- Changjun Yang
January 18, 2020
January 18, 2020
Jan 17th, 2020

It is with great personal sadness that I share the following news. Following a heroic 2 1/2 year battle with cancer, Dr. Zijian Xie passed away today

Dr. Xie was the director of MIIR and a Professor in our Medical School. He was arguably the finest scientist I've known and my very, very, dear friend....

I want to expressed the thanks of his family and my personal gratitude to those who participated in the excellent medical care he received from our physicians, nurses and staff. I also want to thank those scientists and staff within the University community that worked with Dr. Xie. He was very proud to be part of Marshall University, and you were all very dear to him.

Sincerely,
Joe

Joseph I. Shapiro M.D.
Vice President and Dean,
Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Marshall University
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January 19, 2020
Dr. Zijian Xie. Ph.D, passed away on January 17 th , 2020 at the age of 59 after a long and
courageous battle against pancreatic cancer.

Zijian was born on December 27 th , 1960 in Changzhou, China, as the oldest of three siblings. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing College of Pharmacy in Nanjing, China, in 1982, followed by a Master’s degree in toxicology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing in 1984. He was the first in his family to earn the opportunity to travel to and study in the United States and received his doctorate in pharmacology at the Medical College of Ohio (now University of Toledo) in 1990.

At the University of Toledo, he served as a tenured Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology and Medicine, and co-director of the M.D./Ph.D. program. His laboratory became internationally recognized for its work in elucidating the mechanism of several cellular pathways and their association with renal, heart and vascular disease, and cancer. In 2013, Zijian was recruited to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia to be the Director of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR), where he continued his ground-breaking research.

At the time of his passing, he had authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. He also served as the principal investigator or co-investigator on National Institutes of Health-sponsored research totaling over $10 million and international projects totaling more than $1 million in funding. His work also led to several patented applications for medical inventions and spin-off companies. However, throughout his illustrious 30-year career in academia, he most cherished the friendships he formed along the way with hundreds of former colleagues, collaborators, students, and staff.

Zijian is survived by his wife of 35 years, Yahong, and their children, Joe and Jeff. His
immediate family also includes his mother, Liu Yan Qing, his sisters Min Min and Yong Hong,
and his nephews and niece, Xiao Liang, Li Xin, and Xin Rui. He will be deeply missed by all.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 1st, 2020. Further details on the event location and time can be found on this website.

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怀念我们的大哥哥,谢子建

June 19, 2020
怀念我们的大哥哥,谢子建
今天有位朋友要去MCO就职,我就突然想起了子建大哥和亚红姐,上网去查查吧,却突然发现子建大哥过世的噩耗。心中是万般的悲伤,泪如泉涌。虽然我们认识你是在31年前,但子建大哥在我们心目当中永远是一位顶天立地的男子汉. 
那是一九八九年的秋天我先生褚衍芳,被MCO录取了。只有25岁的他只身面对种种困难,要到MCO来求学。我们全家人在国内焦急地等待他的回音。他写给我的信当中详细描述了子建大哥和亚红姐去Toledo机场接他,然后带他到家里留宿。之后又帮他安排一系列的学校里注册,找公寓,直到把他安顿了下来。我们在国内都觉得非常非常的欣慰,幸运有如此的好学长。等到我来到MCO读书的时候我们都在一个系,天天可在走廊里或者是Lunch Room看到子建大哥高大的身影,和蔼可亲的笑容,听到他朗朗的笑声。记得第一次被邀请到他们家去开party,那时他们已经有两个孩子,还有房子。他们的生活就是我们这些初来乍到的学生的梦想。他们为我们做了一个非常好的榜样,让我们看到生活在这个国家也是可以非常美好的..... 很快三四年的学习就这样子结束了。毕业了我们都各奔了东西,过去的美好记忆像陈年的酒,都留在了心底,总想等时机,再回首再相聚,时间过得真是太快了,一晃都30年了,真的也没想到子建大哥就这样快地离开了我们。相聚易难,别亦难,在此真心的想告诉子建大哥,谢谢你,怀念你。
蔡路维,褚衍芳
June 6, 2020
5/27/2020
Dear Jian,
祝贺你!!
你最崭新闪烁的生命科学理念今天 终于公布于世了。

Science Advances/Molecular Biology

Sci. Adv. 2020; 6 : eaaw5851 27 May 2020

A caveolin binding motif in Na/K-ATPase is required for stem cell differentiation and organogenesis in mammals and C. elegans

Xiaoliang Wang1*†, Liquan Cai1*, Jeffrey X. Xie2, Xiaoyu Cui1, Jue Zhang1, Jiayan Wang1,Yiliang Chen3, Isabel Larre1, Joseph I. Shapiro4, Sandrine V. Pierre1, Dianqing Wu5,Guo-Zhang Zhu1,6, Zijian Xie1

Several signaling events have been recognized as essential for regulating cell lineage specification and organogenesis in animals. We find that the gain of an amino-terminal caveolin binding motif (CBM) in the subunit of the Na/K–adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) (NKA) is required for the early stages of organogenesis in both mice and Caenorhabditis elegans. The evolutionary gain of the CBM occurred at the same time as the acquisition of the binding sites for Na+/K+. Loss of this CBM does not affect cell lineage specification or the initiation of organogenesis, but arrests further organ development. Mechanistically, this CBM is essential for the dynamic operation of Wnt and the timely up-regulation of transcriptional factors during organogenesis. These results indicate that the NKA was evolved as a dual functional protein that works in concert with Wnt as a hitherto unrecognized common mechanism to enable stem cell differentiation and organogenesis in multicellular organisms within the animal kingdom.

Submitted 7 January 2019

Accepted 2 March 2020

Published 27 May 2020

10.1126/sciadv.aaw5851

我相信,不久的将来,人们将会重新改写Na/K-ATPase对生命的意义,并应用它治疗疾病,造福于人类。
在为人类生命探讨的诗篇中,你终于可以画上一个完整的句号。

爱你,想你的Hong


Dear Jian,
Congratulations! Your newest and brightest concept of life science has finally come out.

(Sci. Adv. 2020; 6 : eaaw5851 27 May 2020)

I believe that in the near future, people will rewrite the meaning of Na/K-ATPase to life and apply it to treat diseases for the benefit of mankind. In the psalms for human life, you can finally draw a full stop.

Love and miss you
Hong


February 5, 2020
我亲爱的-

首先谢谢我的公婆。是他们送给我一位,乐观,自信,宽容,有理想,有追求的儿子-谢子建。一个最美好的礼物,我亲爱的-建。

谢谢你-建,让我有幸成为你的生活伴侣。是你在所有爱慕女孩的包围之中选择了我,让我有了一个温暖,幸福的家。你对我的爱始终如一,从我们相爱后的第一次接吻到生命的最后。无论是在孩子或是朋友面前你时常会拥抱我或亲吻我,有时搞得我都不好意思。你像一个卫士一样,永远保护着我。

我们并肩走过了35年的日日夜夜,我们分享着数不尽的欢乐时光,我们有太多的共同爱好。你还是我第一个高尔夫球教练,也是最好的教练。我们共同养育了2 个儿子和2个侄儿,在你的精心培养下,他们个个聪明善良,像你一样对生活有理想,有追求。

在我们共同的道路上,无论你出现在哪里,你的周围总是有很多可亲可爱的朋友,总是冲满了温暖,欢乐。你用你的真情去爱他们,关心他们。

你是一个思维敏感聪明照人的人,你对事业的追求是哪么地热中,你从未终止过,直到最后。你告诉过我,正是因为你对科研的执着,才使你的生命支撑到今天。

你勇敢顽强地和病魔挑战争夺时间,在你生命的最后一段时间里,你无白天无黑夜地工作,想到每个为你工作的人和学生,希望为他们铺上最后的路。

你是一个意志坚强钢意过人的人。在医院那段时间,你怕止疼药影向你的思维,你总说不痛,直到最后。

你是一个永远为他人着想的人,特别是为我。当你为他人安排完毕之后,在你清醒的最后一刻,你握着我的手说:“Hong,我不能再陪伴你了。我对不起你,对不起”

昨天,当我清理我的书桌时,发现了一封不知你何时留给我的最后一封信。你写到:“ 亲爱的亚红:你是一个坚强的人。太多的爱在环绕着你;太多的心在保护着你,特别是我,特别是现在。”

亲爱的建,我知道,我们都知道,你累了,太累了,该休息了。

放心吧,我们会沿着你的路永不停步!你会永远,永远活在我,和我们的心里!

亲爱的建,你知道吗?今天有106位亲朋好友来自不同的地方用鲜花和香槟庆祝你光辉灿烂的一生。你会为自己的一生而骄傲! 我们会永远爱你!永记心中!

我真幸运能有你。谢谢你!我亲爱的-建!

你的红
02-01-2020


To my Darling-Jian

Thank you to my Dear parents-in-law, for raising a son who was confident, optimistic, warm-hearted, ambitious and aspiring. A loving gift to me, that’s you, my darling Jian.

Thank you, Jian, for having me as your wife. There were so many girls who admired you. But you chose me and gave me a happy loving home. Your love never stopped from our first kiss until the end. You kissed me all the time in front of our kids and friends even though you knew this was not customary in Chinese culture to show your love openly. You took care of me.

We walked on this earth shoulder to shoulder for 35 years, we shared many happy moments and so many hobbies together, including golf. You were my first and the best golf coach. But you did get mad when I beat you. We also raised 2 sons and 2 nephews who grew up to be kind, intelligent, and aspiring just like you.

In our time together, wherever you were, you were surrounded by many, many dearest friends. You opened your heart to them, and they filled our lives with affection and love.

You were an intelligent and aspiring scholar. You loved your work. Your passion for science was fierce and never stopped until the end. You told me, your love for science was what you could hold on to when you fought for your life.

You fought a brave battle with cancer to make the most of your time. In the last phase of your life, you worked tirelessly day and night. You cared for every student and employee who worked for you. You mentored them and helped guide their future.

You were such a tough person. When you were in the hospital, you were afraid the painkiller would have clouded your mind. So, you refused to take them until the end.

You always put others before yourself, especially me. After you made all the proper arrangements for others, you held my hands in the last moment of your life, and said: “Hong, I can’t stay with you anymore. I am sorry, I am sorry….”

Yesterday, I found a card you hid on my table. You wrote: Dear Yahong: you are a strong woman. So many loves surrounding you, So many hearts are caring for you, Especially mine, Especially now. Love, Jian

Dear Jian, I know, we all know, you were too tired. You shall rest.

Don’t worry. We will continue the path you wished. You will forever live in my heart and our hearts.

Dear Jian, today, your family and friends, either here in person or in thoughts, are here to celebrate your life and achievement. You should be proud for yourself. We all love you and will remember you forever in our hearts.

I am so lucky to have you, Thank you, my darling Jian!

Yours Hong
02-01-2020

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