Biography

Carcinogenesis; Drug Development; Noncoding RNAs in Liquid Biopsy; Multiple Myeloma; Lymphoma; Colon Cancer; Glioma; MicroRNAs; p53.

Research Intrest

My research aims to elucidate the role of noncoding RNAs in gene - environment interaction and to define the precise noncoding molecular events that are responsible for cancer initiation, cancer progression, and cancer susceptibility. 

List of Publications
Takwi A., Li, Y., Buscaglia L.E.B., Zhang J. Choudhury S., Park A.K., Liu, M., Young K.H., Park WY. Martin R.C.G., Li, Y (2012) A Statin-regulated MicroRNA Represses Human c-Myc Expression and Function, EMBO Mol Med, 4(9):896-909.
"Deng Q, Becker L, Ma X, Zhong X, Young K, Ramos K, Li Y. (2014) The dichotomy of p53 regulation by noncoding RNAs. J Mol Cell Biol 6(3):198-205.
Ma X, Conklin DJ, Li F, Dai Z, Hua X, Li Y, Xu-Monette ZY, Young, KH, Xiong W, Wysoczynski, Sithu SD, Srivastava A, Bhatnagar A, Li, Y. (2015) The Oncogenic MicroRNA miR-21 Promotes Regulated Necrosis in Mice. Nature Communications, 6:7151.

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