Yinling Hu

Yinling Hu is a Chinese molecular biologist specialized in cancer immunometabolism, inflammation, and tumorigenesis. She is a senior investigator in the National Cancer Institute. She was an assistant professor at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This article is about the molecular biologist. For the professional wrestler and model, see Yinling.
Yinling Hu
Alma materPeking Union Medical College
University of Melbourne (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
National Cancer Institute
ThesisThe regulatory elements responsible for expression of the homeobox gene Cdx-1 (1994)
InfluencesMichael Karin

Education

Hu completed a undergraduate degree from the Peking Union Medical College and received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. Her 1994 dissertation was titled The regulatory elements responsible for expression of the homeobox gene Cdx-1.[1] She was a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Karin's laboratory, University of California, San Diego from 1996 to 2001.[2][3]

Career and research

Hu established her own laboratory in 2001 when she became an assistant professor at the Science Park Research Division, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2008, she became a principal investigator in the National Cancer Institute's Cancer and Inflammation Program and was awarded tenure in 2016.[2]

Hu's research focuses on understanding the physiological activities of IKKα in skin tumorigenesis and inflammation and in revealing the mechanisms by which IKKα regulates these functions by using genetic animal models, including Ikkα conditional knockout, Ikkα kinase inactive knockin and IKKα transgenic mice, as well as molecular biology approaches.[2]

References
  1. Hu, Yinling (1993). The regulatory elements responsible for expression of the homeobox gene Cdx-1 (Ph.D. thesis). University of Melborne. OCLC 221558534.
  2. "Yinling Hu, Ph.D." Center for Cancer Research. 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2020-09-06. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. "Principal Investigators". NIH Intramural Research Program. Retrieved 2020-09-06. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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