Chiung-Kuei Huang PhD

Chiung-Kuei Huang PhD

Assistant Professor

2012-2013 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Rochester Medical Center, George H. Whipple Laboratory for Cancer Research

2013-2015 - Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

2015-2020 - Assistant research professor, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

2020-2021 - Research assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

2021-present - Assistant professor (Tenure-Track), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

Research

Project 1: TET1 in alcoholic liver disease progression.

Chronic alcohol abuse has been linked to abnormal epigenetic modifications that affect the progression of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) by influencing factors in controlling cell death in hepatocytes. One such factor is 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), but there is currently little information as to how chronic alcohol consumption affects 5hmC's regulation of cell death. Understanding how alcohol impacts 5hmC formation and consequently cell death pathways will potentially yield therapeutic approaches towards ALD...

LCRC Faculty

Missy Wooley
Population Sciences
Louisiana Tech University
Asim Abdel-Mageed DVM PhD
Translational Oncology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Ramsy Abdelghani, MD
Translational Oncology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Jiri Adamec, PhD
Translational Oncology
LSU Health - New Orleans
Sara Al-Dahir, PharmD, PhD, MPH
Population Sciences
Xavier University
Suresh K. Alahari PhD
Translational Oncology
LSU Health - New Orleans
Ashad Alam, MD, PhD
Cancer Biology
Ochsner Health
Muralidharan Anbalagan, PhD
Translational Oncology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Wayne L. Backes PhD
Cancer Biology
LSU Health - New Orleans