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Ling Huang

Ling Huang , PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Henry Ford Health System
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit
Associations: Henry Ford Health System

Education

PhD, Biological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette, 2003
B.S., Biochemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, 1999

Employment

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, - Present
Assistant Scientist, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, 2022 - Present
Instructor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, 2015 - 2021
Research Fellow, Princess Margaret Hospital Cancer Centre, Toronto, 2009 - 2015
Graduate Student, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2003 - 2009

Publications

Abnormal exocrine--endocrine cell cross-talk promotes $β$-cell dysfunction and loss in MODY8 Nature Metabolism (2022)

Organoid Sensitivity Correlates with Therapeutic Response in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Cancer Research (2022)

Personalized tumor vaccine for pancreatic cancer Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (2022)

Commitment and oncogene-induced plasticity of human stem cell-derived pancreatic acinar and ductal organoids Cell Stem Cell (2021)

Empirical identification and validation of tumor-targeting T cell receptors from circulation using autologous pancreatic tumor organoids Journal for immunotherapy of cancer (2021)

Genome-wide synthetic lethal screen unveils novel CAIX-NFS1/xCT axis as a targetable vulnerability in hypoxic solid tumors Science Advances (2021)

Discovery of New Targets to Control Metastasis in Pancreatic Cancer by Single-cell Transcriptomics Analysis of Circulating Tumor CellsSingle-cell RNA-seq to Uncover Metastatic Targets in PDAC Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (2020)

Discovery of a selective inhibitor of doublecortin like kinase 1 Nature chemical biology (2020)

PDX-derived organoids model in vivo drug response and secrete biomarkers JCI insight (2020)

Synthesis and Structure--Activity Relationships of DCLK1 Kinase Inhibitors Based on a 5, 11-Dihydro-6 H-benzo [e] pyrimido [5, 4-b][1, 4] diazepin-6-one Scaffold Journal of medicinal chemistry (2020)

Fundings

investigate therapeutic potentials of EZH2 targeting in pancreatic cancer using patient derived organoids

Circulating tumor cells for predicting pancreatic cancer patient responses to chemotherapies