Hushan Yang, PhD
Professor
Contact Information
College Building
1025 Walnut Street
Suite 727
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-503-6521
215-503-9506 fax
Professor
Education
Education
Postdoc, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Most Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Potentially functional genetic variants in KDR gene as prognostic markers in patients with resected colorectal cancer
- A meta-analysis of array-CGH studies implicates antiviral immunity pathways in the development of hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Longer leukocyte telomere length predicts increased risk of hepatitis b virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma: A case-control analysis
- Association of mitochondrial DNA content in peripheral blood leukocyte with hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma in a Chinese Han population
- Association between mitochondrial DNA content in leukocytes and colorectal cancer risk
Research & Clinical Interests
A major focus of our research is to identify genomic biomarkers using liquid biopsy-based approaches such as circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNAs, and evaluate their values in cancer precision medicine. We are also interested in the identification of molecular and genomic contributors to racial health disparities in cancer patients. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, basic scientists, statisticians, geneticists, and epidemiologists, we have developed multiple longitudinal cancer biorepositories, and are taking a genome-wide approach to developing statistical models that predict the clinical outcomes and dissect racial disparities of cancer patients.