Fang Min
Professor
Institute of Microbiology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Dr. Fang graduated from Lanzhou University in 1994 and received her Ph.D from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. She got her postdoctoral training at Fox Chase Cancer Center from 2003 to 2008. She worked as a research associate and then as a staff scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center from 2008 to 2012. She joined the Institute of Microbiology, CAS as a professor supported by “Thousand Young Talents Program” of the China’s government in 2012.
Research Interest
The current research in our laboratory mainly focuses on understanding the role of Natural Killer (NK) cells in infectious diseases and cancers, especially the role of age-dependent defect of NK cells in regulating increased susceptibility to viral infections and cancer carcinogenesis.
Publications
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[3] Orr MT, Wu J, Fang M, Sigal LJ, Spee P, Egebjerg T, Dissen E, Fossum S, Phillips JH, Lanier LL. Development and function of CD94-deficient natural killer cells. PLoS One. 2010, 5(12):e15184.
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[2] Fang M, Orr MT, Spee P, Egebjerg T, Lanier LL and Sigal LJ. CD94 is essential for NK cell-mediated resistance to a lethal viral disease. Immunity. 2011, 34(4):579-89.
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[1] Fang M, Siciliano N, Hersperger A, Roscoe F, Hu A, Ma X, Shamsedeen A, Eisenlohr L and Sigal L. Perforin-dependent CD4+ T cell cytotoxicity contributes to control a murine poxvirus infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012; 109(25):9983-8.
