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

Christina O'Grady, PhD
Cancer Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Augusto Ochoa MD
Translational Oncology
LSU Health - New Orleans
John Pang MD
Population Sciences
LSU Health - Shreveport
Efthymios Papadopoulos, PhD
Population Sciences
LSU- Baton Rouge
Heewon Park, PhD
Translational Oncology
Tulane University School of Medicine
Florastina Payton-Stewart PhD
Translational Oncology
Xavier University
Laura Perry, PhD
Population Sciences
Tulane University School of Medicine
Francesca Peruzzi PhD
Genes X Environment
LSU Health - New Orleans
Om Prakash PhD
Cancer Biology
LSU Health - New Orleans