TEMTIA & MD Anderson – VIII
Houston, TX, USA - December 7-10, 2017
2017-12-07 08:00:00
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Chonghui Cheng, M.D., Ph.D

Associate Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Lester & Sue Smith Breast Center
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine


Title: Cancer cell plasticity regulated by alternative splicing

Dr. Chonghui Cheng received her PhD from Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York and trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Cheng joined the faculty at Northwestern University in 2007 and was recruited to Baylor College of Medicine as a CPRIT Scholar in 2016. Working at the interface of RNA splicing and breast cancer biology, the research focus in her laboratory is on regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and breast cancer metastasis driven by alternative splicing. Her work demonstrated that splice isoform switching causally controls EMT and promotes breast cancer metastasis. Her research team works closely with physician scientists and aims to apply basic research findings to the development of therapeutics for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Other Speakers

unnamedShoukat Dedhar, Ph.D.
DS1_2123Filippo G. Giancotti, M.D., Ph.D.
unnamedAnna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Untitled-1Valerie LeBleu
Levine_PhotoHerbert Levine
BLittlefield office picBruce A. Littlefield, Ph.D.
Untitled-1Li Ma
Untitled-1Sendurai A. Mani
unnamed (1)Denise Montell
Untitled-1Jianming Xu, Ph.D.
RobertWeinberg-(1)Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D.
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD
professor of Medicine; chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Zena Werb, PhD
professor and vice-chair in the department of Anatomy, are recipients of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Awards.Zena Werb, Ph.D.

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