龍小杭博士 – 生物醫學學院

龍小杭博士

Research Assistant Professor

sslong@cuhk.edu.hk

個人簡介

Dr. LONG Xiaohang (龍小杭) obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the School of Life Sciences at Peking University and her MPhil and Ph.D. degree from the School of Life Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She completed her postdoctoral training in the State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease CUHK, focusing on driver bacteria carcinogenesis in tumor microenvironments and organoids modeling in colorectal cancer.

Teaching and Research Interests

Genomic and epigenomic alterations in liver cancer
Molecular mechanism of immunotherapy resistance
Therapeutic targets for liver cancer

Selected Publications

Long X, Wong CC, Tong L, Chu ESH, Ho Szeto C, Go MYY, Coker OO, Chan AWH, Chan FKL, Sung JJY, Yu J. (2019) Peptostreptococcus anaerobius promotes colorectal carcinogenesis and modulates tumor-immunity. Nature Microbiology 2019 Dec;4(12):2319-2330.
Cheung SC, Long X, Liu L, Liu Q, Lan L, Tong PC, Sun SS. (2013) Inhibition of human MCF-7 breast cancer cells and HT-29 colon cancer cells by rice-produced recombinant human insulin-like growth binding protein-3 (rhIGFBP-3). Plos One 8:e77516 (co-first author)
Long X, Liu Q, Chan M, Wang Q, Sun S.S.M. (2013) Metabolic engineering and profiling of rice with increased lysine. Plant Biotechnol. J 11:490-501

Grants

Health and Medical Research Fund [Co-I; 01-April-2018] “Functional investigation of a novel oncogenic bacterium Peptostreptococcus anaerobius in colorectal carcinogenesis” (HK$1,196,904)
Science and Technology Program Grant, Shenzhen [Co-I; 01 July 2017] “Study on the relationship between gut microbiome dysbiosis and colorectal cancer” (RMB 2,000,000)