Office
(631) 444-3598
Email
jingfang.ju@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Stony Brook Medicine
Department of Pathology
Basic Sciences Tower, Level 9
101 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Jingfang Ju, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology,
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Program
Oncogenic Drivers and Mechanisms of CarcinogenesisDepartment
Department of PathologyResearch Interest
My research at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University focuses on elucidating the mechanism of translational control mediated by non-coding RNAs in cancer and translating the new discovery to clinical cancer diagnosis and therapy. My group is the first to discover that p53 regulates the expression of certain miRNAs, opening a new frontier in cancer research. My group is actively investigating the mechanism of miRNAs in proliferation, cell cycle control, chemoresistance to fluoropyrimidines and antifolates in tumor stem cells, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. My group is also developing novel approaches to study post-transcriptional control mediated by miRNAs and RNA binding proteins. As for the translational research, we are interested in the investigation of miRNAs as biomarkers in cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
Education
BS: Northeastern UniversityPhD: University of Southern California
Postdoctoral: Yale University