Zhu Tao
Professor
School of Life Sciences
University of Science and Technology of China
China
Biography
Zhu Tao, professor and Ph.D. supervisor. He was selected into CAS Hundred Talents Program. In 1994 he graduated from Wuhan University and obtained Bachelor's degree in Medicine; in the end of 2002 he obtained the doctoral degree at Institute of Molecule and Cellular Biology, Singapore; from 2003 to 2007 he worked as postdoctoral research fellow at Institute of Molecule and Cellular Biology, Singapore and Cancer Research Center of Johns Hopkins University, the United States of America successively and was engaged in the research in the signal transduction of growth hormones, and breast cancer. In 2004 he was rewarded by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Since 2005 he has been an adjunct assistant professor at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. Prof. Zhu Tao has served as the specially invited evaluation expert for more than 10 international journals, such as Journal of Clinical Investigation and Cancer Research. He has totally published more than 30 papers on IF>5; the first author’s and corresponding author’s papers have been quoted over 600 times.
Research Interest
1) Cancer molecular therapy targets and biopharmaceuticals 2) Tumor-associated non-coding RNA 3) Tumor biology of nanomaterials
Publications
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Jin K, Kong X, Shah T, Penet MF, Wildes F, Sgroi DC, Ma XJ, Huang Y, Kallioniemi A, Landberg G, Bieche I, Lobie PE, Davidson NE , Zaver M. Bhujwalla ZM, Zhu T*, Sukumar S*. (2012) HOXB7 renders breast cancer resistant to tamoxifen through activation of the EGFR Pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109，2736-41.
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Qian PX, Banerjee A, Wu ZS, Zhang X, Wang H, Pandey V, Zhang WJ, Lv XF, Tan S, Lobie PE*, and Zhu T*. (2012) Loss of SNAIL regulated miR-128-2 on chromosome 3p22.3 promotes mammary epithelial cell oncogenic transformation via targeting multiple stem cell factors. Cancer Res. 72,6036-6050.
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Qian P, Zuo Z, Wu Z, Meng X, Li G, Wu Z, Zhang W, Tan S, Pandey V, Yao Y, Wang P, Zhao L, Wang J, Wu Q, Song E, Lobie PE, Yin Z*, Zhu T*. (2011) Pivotal Role of Reduced let-7g Expression in Breast Cancer Invasion and Metastasis. Cancer Res.71,6463-6474.
