Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Research Programs

Chen, Wei

Research interests: the mechanisms of bone formation, bone resorption, skeletal development, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and  aging diseases. 

Dash, Srikanta

Research interests: Mechanism sand pathogenesis of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, mechanism and biomarkers of hepatocellular carcinoma

Flemington, Erik

Research interests: Biology and pathogenesis of EBV and other ᵧ-Herpesvirus, transcriptomic regulation and carcinogenesis

Huang, Chiung-Kuei

Research interests: The mechanisms of liver cancer development associated with alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, with a specific focus on the impact of sex and epigenetic modification in these regulations. 

Khambu, Bilon

Research interests: Regulation of liver metabolism, regeneration and carcinogenesis

Lee, Sean

Research interests: To understand how oncogenic events such as a chromosomal translocation lead to cancer, particularly Ewing's sarcoma and related small round cell tumors, to understand the normal functions of EWS gene.

Li, Yi-Ping

Research interests: Bone biology, musculoskeletal diseases, immune disorders, craniofacial development, tumorigenesis and cancer bone metastasis.

Lin, Zhen

Research interests: Viral oncology and transcriptomic regulation of ᵧ-Herpesvirus

Morris, Gilbert

Research interests: Molecular biology of lung injury and repair with a particular interest in fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis as a result of environmental exposures

Pi, Liya

Research interests: Molecular characterization of signaling pathways during hepatic progenitor cell activation, liver fibrosis, and liver cancer development in chronic liver diseases.

Savkovic, Suzana

Research interests: The role of the transcription factor FOXO3, and lipid metabolism in inflammation-mediated tumor growth, with a specific focus on the colonic epithelium and colon cancer. 

Tian, Di

Research interests: Molecular diagnosis of brain tumors, and sleep regulation.

Wu, Tong

Research interests: The molecular mechanisms of inflammation and carcinogenesis, with a special emphasis on the pathogenesis of liver cancer and inflammatory liver diseases.

Yan, Shengmin

Research interests: Investigating the mechanisms underlying liver injury in liver diseases and hepatotoxicity, with a particular emphasis on the role of cholestasis in alcohol-associated liver disease.

Yin, Xiao-Ming

Research interests: The molecular and signaling understanding of the homeostatic role of autophagy in the liver and the therapeutic exploration of this pathway for treatment of diseases,

Zhang, Haitao

Research interests: Targeting the androgen receptor (AR) signaling axis in prostate cancer intervention.

Zhang, Jinqiang

Research interests: non-coding RNA regulation of liver cancer