Ke Jian Liu Research Lab

Ke Jian “Jim” Liu, PhD

• Professor, Department of Pathology, Renaissance School of Medicine
• Associate Director for Basic Science, Stony Brook Cancer Center

Office: (631) 216-2823

Email: kejian.liu@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Stony Brook Cancer Center
MART Level 7, Room 0830
Lauterbur Drive
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7263

Research Program

• Oncogenic Drivers and Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis

Department

• Department of Pathology

Research Interests

• Molecular mechanism of environmental arsenic and chromium-induced toxicology and carcinogenesis
• Interaction of metals with zinc-containing proteins, and zinc supplement as a chemoprevention strategy for reducing arsenic toxicity and carcinogenesis
• Arsenic co-carcinogenesis in enhancing UV-induced DNA damage, inhibition of DNA repair, and formation of mutational signatures assessed by whole genome sequencing
• Molecular mechanism of brain injury and neuroprotection in stroke
• In vivo imaging of oxidative stress and tissue oxygenation

Education

• BSc, Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1982
• Radiation Biochemistry, The University of Leeds, England, 1988

Postdoctoral Training

• Biophysical Chemistry, Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1988–1989
• Biophysics/Physiology, Department of Biophysics & Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1990–1993

Current and Previous Appointments

• 2022–present: Professor, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York
• 2022–present: Associate Director for Basic Research, Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook, New York