Faculty Profile

Hsing-Jien Kung
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (School of Medicine)
Res.III, 2400B, UC Davis Medical Center
Office
Lab
hkung@ucdavis.edu
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Degrees:
1976 - PhD - California Institute of Technology -
1969 - BS - National Taiwan University -
- - - Postdoctoral Fellow - University of California, San Francisco - 1977-1978

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Genetics
Microbiology

Publications:
Qiu Y, L Ravi, and HJ Kung. 1998. Requirement of erbB2 for signaling by interleukin-6 in prostate carcinoma cells.. Nature. 393:83-85

Qiu Y, D Robinson, TG Pretlow, and HJ Kung. 1998. Etk/Bmx, a tyrosine kinase with a pleckstrin-homology domain, is an effector of phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase and is involved in interleukin 6-induced neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer ce

Liu JL, Y Ye, LF Lee, and HJ Kung. 1998. Transforming potential of the herpesvirus oncoprotein MEQ : morphological transformation, serum-independent growth, and inhibition of apoptosis.. Journal of Virology. 72 :388-395

Research Interests:
Receptor-kinase oncogenes and signal transduction. One of the major research interests in the laboratory is oncogenic transformation and signal transduction by receptor-kinases. The system und

Teaching Interests:


Kinase and signal transduction. Oncogenes and oncogenesis mechanisms. Oncogenic viruses. Retorvirus and herpesvirus.