L. Eric Huang

Biography

Eric Huang, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Oncological Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He is an investigator in the Huntsman Cancer Institute and a member of the Nuclear Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation program. Dr. Huang received his MD degree from the Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China in 1984. Following this he was a resident in Tumor Pathology at the Cancer Hospital-Shanghai Medical University in China between1984-1986. He then went on to complete his Ph.D. in 1994, in the area of cell and developmental biology from Rutgers University. Dr. Huang received postdoctoral training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School as a Research Fellow between 1994-1997. Following this, for approximately three years, Dr. Huang stayed on as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2000 Dr. Huang became a Principal Investigator at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD and Head of the Hypoxia and Tumorigenesis Unit in the Laboratory of Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. His research focuses on the study of the hypoxic environment (low oxygen tension), in which many cancer cells survive, and how hypoxia can make cancer more aggressive.

Research Interest

Brain Tumors Cancer Metabolism Disease Progression Epigenetics in Cancer Genetic Instability Hypoxia Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mitochondria Mouse Models of Cancer Risk Factors