Yan Cui, PhDLSUHSC School of Medicine

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About Us

	Yan Cui, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics 533 Bolivar Street CSRB 601F New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-4636 Fax: (504) 568-8500 ycui@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	BS Biochemistry - 1985 Peking University, Beijing, China MS Biophysics - 1988 Peking University, Beijing, China PhD Biological Sciences - 1995 University of Alberta, Canada
Research Interests	Cancer immunotherapy Gene Therapy Research page
Selected Publications	Zhao, P., Liu, W., and Cui, Y. (2006) Improvement in early dendritic cell engraftment and immune reconstitution post-bone marrow transplantation with heterogeneous progenitors and GM-CSF treatment. Exp Hematol. 34(7):951-64. Lesniak, M.S., Kelleher, E., Pardoll, D. and Cui, Y. (2005) Targeted gene therapy to antigen-presenting cells in the central nervous system using hematopoietic stem cells. Neurol. Res. 27(8): 820-826. Cui, Y., Kelleher, E., Straley, E., Fuchs, E., Gorski, K., Levitsky, H, Borrello, I., Civin, C.I., Schoenberger, S.P., Cheng, L., Pardoll, D., and Whartenby, K.A. (2003) Immunotherapy of established tumors using bone marrow transplantation with antigen gene-modified hematopoietic stem cells. Nat. Med. 9:952-958. Zhou, X., Cui, Y., Huang, X., Yu, Z., Thomas, A.M., Ye, Z., Pardoll, D.M., Jaffee, E.M., and Cheng, L. (2003) Lentivirus-Mediated Gene Transfer and Expression in Established HumanTumor Antigen-Specific Cytotoxic T Cells and Primary Unstimulated T Cells. Human Gene Therapy 14:1089-1105. Cui, Y., Golob, J., Kelleher, E., Ye, Z, Pardoll, D., and Cheng, L. (2002) Targeting transgene expression to antigen-presenting cells derived from lentivirus-transduced engrafting human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Blood 99:399-408 (Plenary paper with editorial comments).