Jian Li
Dr. Li received a Ph.D. in microbiology
and natural products chemistry from Xiamen University. His research focused on
anti-cancer compounds from the marine and medicinal plant endophyte
actinomycetes. Dr. Li is currently working on the anti-cancer metastasis drug
screening as well as new studies on cancer stem cells and migration.
Publications:
Jian Li, Cem Kuscu, Stanley Zucker and Jian Cao. Switching mechanism of quiescent cancer stem cells to invasive ones: role of hypoxia-induced MT1-MMP trafficking in cancer stem cell invasion. PLoS ONE, 2012, 7: e38403. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038403.
Antoine Dufour, Nicole S. Sampson, Jian Li, Cem Kuscu, Robert C. Rizzo, Jennifer L. DeLeon, Jizu Zhi, Nadia Jaber, Eric Liu, Stanley Zucker, and Jian Cao. Small-Molecule Anticancer Compounds Selectively Target the Hemopexin Domain of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9. Cancer Res, 2011, 71:4977-4988. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-4552.
Kevin Zarrabi, Antoine Dufour, Jian Li, Cem Kuscu, Ashleigh Pulkoski-Gross, Jizu Zhi, Youjun Hu, Nicole S. Sampson, Stanley Zucker and Jian Cao. Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-14 (MMP-14)-mediated cancer cell migration. J. Biol. Chem, 2011. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.256644.
