TEAM
Passion. imagination. Collaboration.
Pingping Hou, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Center for Cell Signaling
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Associate Member, RBHS Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
Rutgers RBHS-NJMS Cancer Center, Newark, NJ
EDUCATION & TRAINING
B.S., Molecular Biology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 2007
Ph.D., Cell Biology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2014
Postdoctoral fellow, Cancer Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, US, 2021
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Pancreatic Cancer Career Development Award, 2022
Thomas H. and Mayme P. Scott Fellowship in Cancer Research, 2021
NIH-NCI K22 Career Transition Award, 2020
Harold C. and Mary L. Dailey Endowment Fellowship, 2020
AACR Scholar-in-Training Award, 2018
Meet the team
Daiyong Deng, phd
Research Associate (since 2021/11)
Dr. Deng earned his Ph.D. degree at South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He is an expert in microbial engineering, and has established a solid research background in multiple biological disciplines including microbiology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry during his postdoc training. He has 5 first-author publications in the past 5 years and he is the co-inventor of 4 patents and the co-author of over 30 papers.
In Hou lab, Dr. Deng will help with lab management and dissect the role of genetic alternations in regulating KRAS targeted therapy resistance.
ALUMNI
Jason Xiong: summer student (2022/06-2022/07)
Riya Patel: research volunteer (2022/01-2022/08)
Roma Agarwal: summer student (2022/07-2022/08)
Luis Garza: graduate student (2021/09-2022/09)