Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Program Co-Leader of Cell Identity and Signaling of Purdue University

             Center for Cancer Research (PCCR)

Program Co-Leader of Prostate Cancer Discovery Group of PCCR

 

Phone: (765) 496-1971

Fax: (765) 494-1414

E-mail: hu1@purdue.edu

Purdue Faculty Website: https://www.mcmp.purdue.edu/faculty/hu1

Specialization: Cancer Biology and Cancer Pharmacology

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Education

M.D. (1984) - Bengbu Medical College, China (Medicine)
M.S. (1987) - Tongji Medical University, China (Cancer Immunology)
Ph.D. (1997) - Kobe University, Japan (Molecular Biology)
Postdoc (2000-2002) - University of Michigan

 

Recent Awards

July 2017 - June 2021 - University Showalter Faculty Scholar Award of Purdue University

May 2019 - 2019 Chaney Faculty Scholar Award (Research Award in the Purdue University College of Pharmacy)

May 2018 - Lafayette Lions Club Award for Outstanding Achievements in Cancer Research (State Award)

October 2017 - Seed for Success Award (EVPRP)

April 2017 - Pharmaceutical Sciences Teacher of the Year in the College of Pharmacy

                  

Recent Services in National and International Conferences

March 2020 - Invited Keynote Speaker (the 5th International Conference on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo)

November 2019 - Session Co-Chair of Plenary Session I (Big Data as Engines for Discovery) at the 2019 SBUR

May 2016 - Session Co-Chair of Session I (Inflammation and metabosm alterations in urological diseases) at the 2016 SBUR

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Research Areas

(1)  Development of novel technologies to image and target transcriptional and epigenetic regulation.

(2)  Regulation and function of AP-1 in prostate cancer cells. 

(3)  Mechanisms and targeting of therapy-induced neuroendocrine differentiation (NED) in prostate cancer. 

(4)  Role of PRMT5 in prostate cancer development, progression, and therapeutic response. 

(5)  Development of protein-protein interaction disruptors as novel cancer therapeutics.