Junke Zheng

Junke Zheng, Ph.D., Principle Investigator, and the winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Dr. Zheng got his Ph.D for Developmental Biology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2007. He had the Postdoc (Instructor) training at Alec Zhang’s Lab (2007-2012), Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. He was nominated as the Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2012. Dr. Zheng’s lab mainly focuses on the studies of metabolic regulations of the stemness of hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells. He also works on the niche components-immune inhibitory receptor mediated signaling in the activities of hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells. He has made several important findings related to glucose/amino acid metabolisms and immune inhibitory receptor mediated pathways during hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis, which has been published in Nature, Cell Metab, JCI, Blood, Sci Adv, Cell Rep and Haematologica et al..