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Kan Ding's Biography



Kan Ding, Professor, The National Center for Drug Screening

Dr. Kan Ding received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai) in 1999. During 1999 ~ 2005 Dr. Ding did his postdoc. training to study cell & molecular biology in Lund University (Sweden), University of California, Irvine (USA), and Harvard Medical School (USA), respectively. He was appointed a full professor position at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 2006. His lab is focusing on the study of glycan structure and function regulated by microRNA.

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MiR-149 Targets Caspase-2 to Promote Glioma Cell Growth in vitro & in vivo

Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 10:00

Add to Calendar ▼2012-04-19 10:00:002012-04-19 11:00:00Europe/LondonMiR-149 Targets Caspase-2 to Promote Glioma Cell Growth in vitro and in vivoSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

MiR-149 binds to the 3'UTR of caspase-2 to down-regulate caspase-2 expression. Caspase-2 may impair glioma cells growth. Overexpressed miR-149 in U87 glioma cells xenografted in nude mice resulted in significant tumor growth by targeting caspase-2.


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