Email

yongji.zeng@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Associate

Medicine - Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

MD from Shandong University

06/2012 - Jinan, Shandong China

MS from China Medical University

06/2015 - Shenyang, Liaoning China

PhD from University of Nebraska Medical Center

05/2021 - Omaha, Nebraska United States

Postdoctoral Training at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2021 - Houston, Texas United States

Professional Interests

• The Role of Hippo Pathway in Paligenosis

Selected Publications

• Yongji Zeng, Seth Stauffer, Jiuli Zhou, Xingcheng Chen, Yuanhong Chen, Jixin Dong "Cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1)-mediated mitotic phosphorylation of the transcriptional co-repressor Vgll4 inhibits its tumor-suppressing activity.." J Biol Chem.. 2017 Sep 8;292(36):P15028-15038. Pubmed PMID: 28739871
• Yongji Zeng, Ling Yin, Jiuli Zhou, Renya Zeng, Yi Xiao, Adrian R Black, Tuo Hu, Pankaj K Singh, Feng Yin, Surinder K Batra, Fang Yu, Yuanhong Chen, Jixin Dong "MARK2 regulates chemotherapeutic responses through class IIa HDAC-YAP axis in pancreatic cancer." Oncogene. 2022 Jul 2;41:3859–3875. Pubmed PMID: 35780183
• Yongji Zeng, Ramon U Jin "Molecular pathogenesis, targeted therapies, and future perspectives for gastric cancer." Semin Cancer Biol .. 2022 Oct 18;86:566-582. Pubmed PMID: 34933124
• Yongji Zeng, Qing K. Li, Sujayita Roy, Jason C. Mills, and Ramon U. Jin "Shared features of metaplasia and the development of adenocarcinoma in the stomach and esophagus." Front Cell Dev Biol .. 2023 Mar 13;11 Pubmed PMID: 36994101

Funding

The role and regulation of the Hippo pathway in paligenosis

Grant funding from National Cancer Center