People who work in Molecular Medicine
Faculty
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James Adair
- Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- Director of the Ceramic & Composite Materials Center
Phone number 814-863-6047 • Email address jha3@psu.edu
Research interests:Colloid and interfacial chemistry, material synthesis and chemistry, powder characterization, and powder processing.
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Alaa S. Awad
- Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-8156 • Email address asa17@psu.edu
Research interests:Inflammation in diabetic nephropathy, Podocyte microenvrionment, and Podocyte/macrophage interaction.
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Rebecca Bascom
- Professor of Medicine
Phone number 717-531-6525 • Email address rbascom@psu.edu
Research interests:Inhalation toxicology, including evaluation of cardiorespiratory effects of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City.
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Philip Bevilacqua
- Professor of Chemistry
- Co-Director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-863-3812 • Email address pcb@chem.psu.edu
Research interests:Roles of RNA-binding proteins in plant physiology. Plant ribonomics. Identification and characterization of functional RNAs in plants.
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Sarah Bronson
- Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-5194 • Email address sbronson@psu.edu
Research interests:Targeted transgenesis and transgene expression: stem cell differentiation/osteogenesis.
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Craig Cameron
- Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-863-8705 • Email address cec9@psu.edu
Research interests:Defining the molecular details of genome replication in positive-strand RNA viruses and identifying components of this process suitable for antiviral drug development.
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Margherita Cantorna
- Professor in Molecular Immunology
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Phone number 814-863-2819 • Email address mxc69@psu.edu
Research interests:Identification and characterization of the cellular and molecular targets of vitamin D in the immune system.
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Douglas Cavener
- Professor and Head of Biology
Phone number 814-865-4562 • Email address drc9@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of gene expression underlying neonatal development & organ system physiology; mouse models of human congenital diseases including juvenile diabetes, metabolic disorders, skeletal dysplasias, and central nervous system dysfunctions.
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Gong Chen
- Associate Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-865-2488 • Email address gongchen@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanism of synaptogenesis and plasticity.
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Keith Cheng
- Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
- Co-director, Bioinformatics and Genomics graduate program
- Director of Experimental Pathology
Phone number 717-531-8352 • Email address kcheng@psu.edu
Research interests:Cancer genetics; Systems Genetics validation of candidate genes from human genetics; skin color genetics; high-throughput automated whole-body 3D genetic and chemical phenomics at cell resolutions in interdisciplinary teams (physics, engineering, computer engineering, heuristic computer vision, user interfaces); synchrotron microCT imaging; genetics of genomic instability; web-based resources.
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Gary Clawson
- Professor of Pathology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-5632 • Email address gac4@psu.edu
Research interests:Early changes in carcinogenesis.
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James Connor
- Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair Department of Neurosurgery
Phone number 717-531-4541 • Email address jrc3@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of expression of iron-binding proteins in the nervous system.
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Kristin Eckert
- Associate Professor of Pathology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-4065 • Email address kae4@psu.edu
Research interests:The significance of spontaneous and carcinogen-induced mutations at short tandem repeat (STR) DNA loci in human cells.
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Wafik S El-Deiry
- Professor of Medicine, Chief, Hematology/Oncology
- Rose Dunlap Division Chair in Hematology/Oncology
- Associate Director for Translational Research, Cancer Institute
Phone number 717-531-8678 • Email address wse2@psu.edu
Research interests:Translational cancer research focused on bringing new biomarkers and novel therapies into the clinic.
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Willard Freeman
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
- Director, Functional Genomics Core Facility
• Email address wfreeman@psu.edu
Research interests:Researching the systems biology of psychiatric disorders, more specifically, alterations in brain mRNA and protein expression with drug abuse, alcoholism, and schizophrenia.
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Adam Glick
- Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Co-Chair, Molecular Medicine Program
Phone number 814-865-7170 • Email address abg11@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways that regulate progression of squamous tumors from a benign to malignant phenotype.
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Channe Gowda
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-0992 • Email address gowda@psu.edu
Research interests:Understanding the structures and interactions between Plasmodium falciparum and human glycoconjugates that lead to malaria pathogenesis.
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Pamela Hankey
- Professor of Immunology
Phone number 814-863-0128 • Email address phc7@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of cell-mediated immunity, hematopoiesis, receptor tyrosine kinases, cellular transformation.
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Eric Harvill
- Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Phone number 814-863-8522 • Email address harvill@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular basis of bacterial infection pathology (including effects of bacterial virulence factors, such as toxins).
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Jianming Hu
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-6523 • Email address juh13@psu.edu
Research interests:Virus-cell interactions in Hepatitis B Virus replication and pathogenesis.
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Rosalyn Irby
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Phone number 717-531-5035 • Email address rirby@psu.edu
Research interests:Etiology of large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia. Identification of the molecular basis for metastatic disease in colorectal cancer.
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Harriet Isom
- Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
- Professor of Pathology
Phone number 717-531-8609 • Email address hci1@psu.edu
Research interests:Liver pathophysiology: cellular and molecular analyses of growth control, differentiation, apoptosis, cell injury, iron metabolism and Hepatitis Virus infection in hepatic cell systems.
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Leonard Jefferson
- Evan Pugh Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Co-Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Physiology
Phone number 717-531-8567 • Email address jjefferson@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of gene expression in mammalian cells by hormones and nutrients.
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Vandana Kalia
- Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Science
Phone number 814-863-8533 • Email address vkalia@psu.edu
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Sagarika Kanjilal
- Associate Professor of Veterinary Science
Phone number 814-865-9885 • Email address quk13@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular, genomic, and proteomic investigation of cancer pathways, biomarkers, and targeted
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Vivek Kapur
- Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Phone number 814-865-9788 • Email address vkapur@psu.edu
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Michael Katzman
- Professor of Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-8881 • Email address mkatzman@psu.edu
Research interests:Retroviral integration and AIDS pathogenesis.
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Ralph Keil
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-8595 • Email address rkeil@psu.edu
Research interests:Mechanism of action of volatile inhaled anesthetics.
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Mark Kester
- Professor of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-8964 • Email address mkester@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of kinase cascades by lipid-derived second messengers.
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Zhi-Chun Lai
- Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Cell and Developmental Biology
Phone number 814-863-0479 • Email address zcl1@psu.edu
Research interests:Signal Transduction, Growth Control, and Cancer Genetics
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Charles Lang
- Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Surgery
- Co-Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular Medicine
Phone number 717-531-5538 • Email address clang@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of the IGF (Insulin-like Growth Factor) system during catabolic conditions.
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Eugene Lengerich
- Professor of Health Evaluation Sciences
Phone number 717-531-7178 • Email address ejl6@psu.edu
Research interests:Chronic disease epidemiology; public health surveillance; Geographic Information System (GIS); cartography; community-based research; program evaluation; health disparities; Appalachian region; rural health; screening; prevention.
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Robert Levenson
- Professor of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-4545 • Email address rlevenson@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular neurobiology, cell differentiation.
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Xin Liu
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Phone number 717-531-8292 • Email address xxl11@psu.edu
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Thomas Loughran
- Professor of Medicine
- Director of Penn State Cancer Institute
Phone number 717-531-4034 • Email address tloughran@psu.edu
Research interests:Large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia
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Bernhard Luscher
- Professor of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Psychiatry
- Director, Center for Molecular Investigation of Neurological Disorders (CMIND)
Phone number 814-865-5549 • Email address bxl25@psu.edu
Research interests:Structure, function and regulation of GABA-A receptors and their role in anxiety disorders.
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Christopher Lynch
- Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-5170 • Email address clynch@psu.edu
Research interests:Adipose tissue biology, nutrient signaling and obesity.
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Yingwei Mao
- Assistant Professor of Biology
Phone number 814-867-4739 • Email address yzm1@psu.edu
Research interests:Researching the mechanisms that regulate neurogenesis using cellular and mouse models.
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Andrea Mastro
- Professor of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Phone number 814-863-0152 • Email address a36@psu.edu
Research interests:Breast cancer and the immune system; how metastatic, osteolytic breast cancer cells affect osteoblasts.
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Jan McAllister
- Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phone number 717-531-3588 • Email address jxm63@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of the genes encoding steroidogenic enzymes in the human ovary.
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Patricia McLaughlin
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Graduate Program in Anatomy
Phone number 717-531-6414 • Email address pxm9@psu.edu
Research interests:Growth factors and receptors in brain and heart development and cancer. The pentapeptide OGF and its receptor, OGFr; understanding the OGF-OGFr axis and its mechanisms of action in both normal and disease states.
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Craig Meyers
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-6240 • Email address cmm10@psu.edu
Research interests:Differentiation-dependent replication of papillomaviruses and their role in carcinogenesis.
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Kathleen M Mulder
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-6789 • Email address kmm15@psu.edu
Research interests:TGF-beta signal transduction, anti-cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, motor proteins, and intracellular trafficking.
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Chris Norbury
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-7204 • Email address ccn1@psu.edu
Research interests:The activation of retinal microglia in the progression of diabetic retinopathy.
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Curtis Omiecinski
- Professor of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
- H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair
- Co-chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular Toxicology
Phone number 814-863-1625 • Email address cjo10@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulatory mechanisms responsible for controlling the expression of biotransformation enzymes.
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Leslie Parent
- Associate Professor of Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology
Phone number 717-531-8881 • Email address lparent@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanisms of virus replication; intracellular trafficking pathways of retroviral proteins and cellular factors that are recruited to facilitate virus propagation.
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Andrew Patterson
- Director/Faculty Oversight, Metabolomics Core Facility (University Park)
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Toxicology
Phone number 814-867-4565 • Email address adp117@psu.edu
Research interests:Working to define the role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α (PPARα) in mitochondrial dysfunction associated with drug-induced hepatotoxicity
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Robert Paulson
- Professor of Veterinary Science
- Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Genetics
Phone number 814-863-6306 • Email address rfp5@psu.edu
Research interests:Genetic and biochemical analysis of cell signaling during hematopoiesis.
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Gary Perdew
- John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in Agricultural Sciences
Phone number 814-865-0400 • Email address ghp2@psu.edu
Research interests:Biochemistry of heat shock protein complexes; role of 90 kDa heat shock protein in stabilization of other cytosolic proteins.
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Jeffrey Peters
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology & Carcinogenesis
Phone number 814-863-1387 • Email address jmp21@psu.edu
Research interests:Roles of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in the regulation of homeostasis, toxicology, and carcinogenesis.
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Sandeep Prabhu
- Associate Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Phone number 814-863-8976 • Email address ksp4@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of immune function by oxidative stress and antioxidants, including selenium. Regulation of HIV transcription by selenium.
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Joseph Reese
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-865-1976 • Email address jcr8@psu.edu
Research interests:UV resistance pathways in eukaryotes. Regulation of DNA damage inducible genes by chromatin. Role of a highly conserved RNA helicase in DNA damage resistance and viral pathogenesis.
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John Richie
- Professor, Public Health Sciences & Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-5381 • Email address jrichie@psu.edu
Research interests:Metabolic and genetic factors that affect cancer risk. Role of glutathione in protecting against oxidative damage, and its relationship with cancer development.
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Gavin Robertson
- Professor of Pharmacology, Pathology, and Dermatology
Phone number 717-531-8098 • Email address gprobertson@psu.edu
Research interests:Genetic regulation of melanoma development.
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Ira Ropson
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 717-531-4064 • Email address iropson@psu.edu
Research interests:Folding, function and stability of beta-sheet proteins.
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Jeffery Sample
• Email address jts21@psu.edu
Research interests:Mechanisms of Epstein-Barr virus persistence and tumorigenesis.
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Lorraine Santy
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-863-6813 • Email address lcsanty@psu.edu
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Surojit Sarkar
- Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Science
Phone number 814-867-4034 • Email address sxs1081@psu.edu
Research interests:Regulation of Immunological Memory to Pathogens and Vaccines
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Robert Schlegel
- Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-865-6974 • Email address ur3@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanisms by which an asymmetric distribution of phospholipids is maintained across the plasma membrane in animal cells.
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Scott Showalter
- Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Phone number 814-865-2318 • Email address sas76@psu.edu
Research interests:Biophysical Chemistry applied to solution NMR spectroscopy of partially disordered proteins. NMR studies of protein dynamics coupled with computational and theoretical studies of the coupling between nuclear spin relaxation and molecular motion.
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Ian Simpson
- Professor of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Phone number 717-531-4156 • Email address ixs10@psu.edu
Research interests:Transport of nutrients across the blood-brain barrier. Cytokine-mediated activation of the brain's inflammatory/wound healing mechanisms in diabetes and strokes.
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Song Tan
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-865-3355 • Email address sxt30@psu.edu
Research interests:Structural biology of eukaryotic gene regulation.
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Diane Thiboutot
- Professor of Dermatology
Phone number 717-531-8307 • Email address dthiboutot@psu.edu
Research interests:Factors regulating human sebum production in acne.
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Jack Vanden Heuvel
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
Phone number 814-863-8532 • Email address jpv2@psu.edu
Research interests:Mechanisms of action of hypolipidemic drugs and peroxisome proliferators; steroid hormone receptor-mediated signal transduction; signal transduction by lipids and fatty acids; receptor-mediated carcinogenesis.
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Kent Vrana
- Elliot S. Vesell Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
Phone number 717-531-8285 • Email address kvrana@psu.edu
Research interests:The potential of human embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine.
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Hong-gang Wang
- Lois High Berstler Professor of Pharmacology
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Research interests:Understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that control programmed cell death (PCD) in the context of oncogenesis.
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Yanming Wang
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone number 814-865-3775 • Email address yuw12@psu.edu
Research interests:Epigenetic histone modifications in cell differentiation and cancer.
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Na Xiong
- Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Phone number 814-863-2933 • Email address nux1@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanisms underlying development of tissue specific gamma/delta T cells and their role in infection and inflammation.
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Christopher Yengo
- Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-8575 • Email address cmy11@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular Motors and the Cytoskeleton, Protein Structure/Function and Dynamics, Enzyme Kinetics, Molecular Mechanisms of Myosin Based Motility.
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Ian Zagon
- Distinguished Professor of Neural and Behavioral Science
- Director, Program on Education in Human Structure
Phone number 717-531-8650 • Email address isz1@psu.edu
Research interests:Peptides and receptors in development, cancer, cell renewal, wound healing, angiogenesis, cornea, neurodegeneration, diabetes and Crohn's Disease.
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Jiyue Zhu
- Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Phone number 717-531-3597 • Email address joz1@psu.edu
Research interests:Molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and immortalization, and their roles in tumorigenesis.
