Ji-Fan Hu
Stanford University Medical School, United States
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- Keywords: Epigenetics, stem cell, long noncoding RNA, gene regulation, cancer therapy
Short Bio
- Dr. Jifan Hu is a Tang ErQin Professor in the Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of Ministry of Education, Stem Cell and Cancer Center, First Hospital of Jilin University, China. He also holds a joint position as the Director of Cancer and Stem Cell Epigenetics Program at the Stanford University Medical School-Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Institute for Research (PAVIR), Palo Alto, United States. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, M.S. from Beijing University, and M.D. from Anhui Medical University. He took the postdoctoral training at Stanford University Medical School. As the PI, he has been in charge of research grants from NIH, US Department of Defense (DoD), California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NFSC), and National Basic Research Program of China. His current research is focused on stem cell reprograming and self-renewal, noncoding RNAs, gene therapy, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying abnormal gene regulation in cancers. He has published a series of papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Cell Stem Cell, Genome Biology, Biomaterials, J Cell Biol, Nucleic Acids Res, Oncotarget, Oncogene, Hepatology, and Science. In a project funded by CIRM, his group demonstrates that intrachromosomal looping in pluripotency gene promoters is a critical epigenetic barrier in iPSC reprogramming.
