Dr. Yong Jiang
Department of Biomedical Sciences
James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Jiang received his Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he learned and accumulated research experience as a biochemist. His area of expertise ranges from genes expression regulation, protein purification and structure analysis. During his postdoctoral training at Medical University of South Carolina and Cleveland Clinic, he focused on the mechanistic study of TGF-β signaling pathway and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, which are two key pathways for both tumorigenesis and cardiac fibrosis.