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Honor and Memorial Gifts

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Researcher Profiles

Researcher Directory

Shumei Song, MD, PhD

Academic Appointment

Professor
Coriell Institute for Medical Research

Research Interests

  • Elucidate the molecular mechanisms and functional role of Hippo/YAP/TAZ in mediating CSCs traits, therapy resistance and metastases in gastroesophageal cancers
  • Elucidate HippoYAP/SOXs/CSCs mediated tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment and the interaction among tumor cells, macrophage, cancer associated fibroblast (CAFs) and T cells for novel therapeutic strategies.
  • Exploring novel immune checkpoints from patients derived metastatic cells/tissues and identify the effective target and immune combination therapies using syngenetic and genetic mouse models
  • Building strong translational GI programs (PDXs, organoids etc) and facilitate novel discoveries from patients’

The content for the Researcher Directory is maintained by Gina Londino-Greenberg (grl41@cinj.rutgers.edu)