Xu Dong Zhang
University of Newcastle, Australia
Biography
Xu Dong Zhang received his PhD degree from the University of Sydney in 2001 and has been working on translational melanoma research since then. His major research interest is in regulation of programmed cell death and survival signal pathways in melanoma cells. He is a Professor and ta co-director of the Priority Research Center for Cancer of the University of Newcastle. He is also the Deputy Director of the Cancer Research Program of the Hunter Medical Research Institute. He has published more than 130 papers in reputed journals with a current H index of 36.
Abstract
Abstract : The tumor supressor INPP4B functions as an oncogenic regulator in a subset of melanomas