Huocong Huang
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Biography
Huocong Huang has completed his MD degree from Sun Yat-sen University, China and PhD degree from Dr. Keith Johnson’s Lab at University of Nebreska Medical Center. He is now a Post-doctoral Researcher from Dr. Rolf Brekken’s lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He has been dedicated to studying pancreatic cancer microenvironment ever since his PhD study. He was involved in pancreatic cancer SPORE projects and tumor microenvironment network projects focusing on matrix-driven epithelial-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer, and now he is developing many novel therapeutic strategies for the disease by targeting the tumor stroma and cancer-matrix interaction.
Abstract
Abstract : DDR1 inhibition as a strategy enhancing chemoresponse in pancreatic cancer