Keith C Cheng

Keith C Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Positions:
    Professor

    Pathology

    Jake Gittlen Cancer Research Foundation

    Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (Hershey, PA)

    Director of Experimental Pathology

    Pathology

    Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (Hershey, PA)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Molecular Genetics, University of Washington (Seattle, WA), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA)
     
    M.D., Pathology, New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY)
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  • Clinical Training:
     
    Residency, Pathology, University of Washington
     
    Residency, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Lawrence A. Loeb (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    Gerald R. Smith (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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  • Research:
    The Cheng lab is interested in the molecular genetics of cancer, genomic instability, and skin color, and in the development of the zebrafish as a vertebrate model for systems biology - particularly in the area of systems morphogenetics.

    Research in the Cheng lab spans the realms of genomic instability, cancer, image informatics, and the molecular genetic and evolutionary basis of the differences in human skin cancer susceptibility. We are also shepherding a web-based atlas of zebrafish microanatomy that will form the basis of a new vertebrate systems biology that is grounded in time and space. A visionary donor is being sought to support this interdisciplinary and integrative initiative (involving physics, chemistry, computer science, genetics, pathology, and image informatics), in which we seek to determine, and add meaning to, the expression of every gene in every cell through the lifespan of this important vertebrate model system.

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  • Other Experience:

    1960-present Music

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Keith Cheng's Publications (33)



One Figure

One Figure for Keith C Cheng

Cover of Science article in December 16, 2005 issue about the golden gene, SLC24A5, in which an adaptive missense mutation was found to have laid the foundation for light skin color in peoples of European ancestry


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