Dan Yan
Emory University, USA
Biography
Dan Yan received her MD and PhD degrees from Tongji Medical College in China. She has published 22 research papers in journals including Science Translational Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and Journal of Biochemistry. She has reviewed multiple journals and is an Editorial Board Member for Results in Immunology and Gavin Journal of Blood. She joined the Emory Faculty in 2015 as a newly appointed Instructor focusing on characterization of roles for MERTK in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with an emphasis on identification of other pathways that cooperate with MERTK to promote tumorigenesis.
Abstract
Abstract : MERTK promotes resistance to irreversible EGFR TKIs in NSCLCs expressing wildtype EGFR