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Language
English
Title and Department
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Professional bio

Ming Jiang, MD, PhD, is a biomedical research scientist with extensive expertise in establishment and characterization of primary culture cells, immortalized cell lines, 3D-organoid culture, patient-derived xenografting (PDX), and tissue recombination-xenografting (TRX) models in prostate, bladder, colorectal, and lung organs.

Dr. Jiang’s general interests include functional dissection of nuclear receptor signaling pathways in pathogenesis, carcinogenesis, and cancer progression using novel in vitro and in vivo translational preclinical research models.

His research interests are focused on three main topics: 1) cross-talk of the Arachidonic Acid/COXs/LOXs/PPARgamma signaling pathways in pathogenesis and carcinogenesis; 2) functional remodeling of human normal, benign, and cancerous glandular tissues in a combination of 3D-organoid culture and tissue recombination-xenografting (TRX) mouse models based on epithelial-stromal interactions, tumor microenvironment, and immuno-oncology; and 3) establishment of a spontaneous human cancer-mouse multi-organ including bone metastases model.

Dr. Jiang’s major contributions to science include 1) establishment and characterization of both inducible transgenic mouse lines PSA-Cre-ERT2, aP2-Cre-ERT2 and aAT-Cre-ERT, and translational preclinical research models NHPrE1, BHPrE1, BHPrS1 and iHDME1 cell lines and their regenerated tissue recombination-xenografts; 2) deciphering molecular mechanisms of nuclear receptor PPARgamma1/2 signaling pathway in prostate carcinogenesis and cancer progression using both transgenic knockout mouse lines and translational human-mouse TRX models; and 3) investigation of the effects of dietary magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) on risks of common chronic disease.
Education
Medical School
Clinical Medicine - Nantong University
1986
Medical School
Nanyang Technological University
1986
Graduate
MS - Oncological Pathology - Nantong University
1991
Graduate
PhD - Surgical Oncology - Shanghai Medical University
1997
Fellowship
Liver Cancer Biology - 2nd Military Medical University
1999
Fellowship
IGBMC
2002
Fellowship
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology - Institut de Genetique
2002
Fellowship
Prostate Cancer Biology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2007
Fellowship
Prostate Cancer Biology - Vanderbilt University
2007
Education