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Dr. Pei is interested in using mouse genetic approaches to investigating the molecular and cellular basis of disease development. Dr. Pei generated and characterized 51 different mouse mutants for various cell cycle inhibitors and tumor suppressors, and demonstrated their functions in the control of stem cells and tumorigenesis of multiple tissues. Dr. Pei discovered that p18INK4c is a downstream target of GATA3 and restrains mammary luminal progenitor proliferation and tumorigenesis (Pei XH, Cancer Cell, 2009). As a tenure track assistant and associate professor at the University of Miami, Dr. Pei published 17 research papers. He discovered that deletion of Brca1 causes luminal-to-basal mammary tumor transformation (Bai F, Oncogene, 2013), and promotes EMT during tumor development (Bai F, Cancer Res., 2014). Since Oct 2018, Dr. Pei has been moving to China and working as a full professor at the Shenzhen University Medical School. In addition to the abovementioned areas, he is also very interested in 1) how DNA damage contributes to tumor cell de-differentiation; 2) how cell cycle inhibitors and transcription factors control cochlea hair cells in hearing loss and tubular cells in kidney disease. Recently, he discovered that GATA3 functions downstream of BRCA1 to suppress EMT in cancers (Bai F, Theranostics, 2021; 2022; Bai F, Cell Death Dis., 2022; Liu X, Cell Cell Death Dis., 2023), and BRCA1 promotes repair of DNA damage in cochlear hair cells and prevents hearing loss (Jiang W, J Neurosci, 2024).
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