Jianyuan Jack Luo Ph. D., Professor and Chair

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Medical Genetics

Peking University Health Science Center

Contact information

Email: luojianyuan@bjmu.edu.cn

Personal Proflie

Prof.Jianyuan Jack Luograduated from Department of Biology, Peking University with BA in 1986 and MS in 1990. He earned thePh.D degree in University of Kentucky, Lexington, and pursued his postdoctoral training in Columbia University, NYC from 1999 to 2002. He began his independent research at University of Massachusetts Medical School as Assistant Professor from 2003-2010. He moved to University of Maryland as Associate Professor from 2010-2015. He was appointed as full professor in Peking University since 2015. He is now the Chair of Academic Board in School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chair of Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Chair of Department of Medical Genetics, Director of Center for Medical Geneticsand Director for Beijing key laboratory of protein post-translational modifications and cell function.

Prof.Luo’s research is mainly focus on the regulation of protein post-translational modification and its function in tumorigenesis and cellular senescence. He has published a series of peer-reviewed papers in highly impacted scientific journals includingNature, Cell, Molecular Cell, PNAS,CancerResearch, and made very important and novel contributions to the understanding of protein acetylation modification. His current researchis funded by National Natural Science Foundation and National Research Program of China.

Research of Focus

(1) The function and mechanism of protein post-translational modifications in tumorigenesis and senescence.

(2) The function and mechanism of epigeneticsin tumorigenesis.

(3) The function and mechanism of DNA repair in tumorigenesis.

Staff

Co-PI:

Dr. Qing Chang, Associate Professor;

Dr. Haiying Wang, Associate Professor.

Dr. Dan Wu, Associate Professor.

Technicians:

Ms. JunhuaZou,Tel: 0086-10-8280-1465

Dr. QiCui,Tel: 0086-10-8280-1465