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

Lucio Miele MD PhD
Population Sciences
LSU Health - New Orleans
Anil Mishra PhD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Omeed Moaven, MD
Genes X Environment
LSU Health - New Orleans
Mark Mondrinos, PhD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Krzysztof Moroz MD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Gilbert Morris PhD
Genes X Environment
Tulane University School of Medicine
Siva Murru, PhD
Translational Oncology
University of Louisiana Monroe
Navya Nair, MD, MPH
Translational Oncology
LSU Health - New Orleans
Jamie Newman PhD
Genes X Environment
Louisiana Tech University