Join us for MLS Seminar featuring Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng, Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute!
Dr. Zheng received his medical and virological training at Wuhan University in China (1981) and was a Yale-China Exchange Scholar in clinical virology at Yale University (1961-1984). He received his PhD from University of South Florida School of Medicine in 1994. Dr. Zheng first identified RNA cis-elements in regulation of alternative RNA splicing in papillomavirus in 1996 and has been studying protein-RNA interactions and their consequences in various infections with tumor viruses, including high-risk human paillomaviruses and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
His laboratory aims to understand RNA splicing and non-coding RNAs regulate the expression of viral and host genes in viral carcinogenesis. The long-term goal is to develop a series of therapeutic approaches to control viral or cellular gene expression for cancer in AIDS treatments and to identify biomarkers for clinical diagnosis and prognosis.