Professional Bio
Ming Jiang, MD, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a biomedical research scientist with extensive expertise in establishment and characterization of primary culture cells, immortalized cell lines, 3D-organoid culture, patient-derived xenografting (PDX), and tissue recombination-xenografting (TRX) models in prostate, bladder, colorectal, and lung organs.
Dr. Jiang's general interests include functional dissection of nuclear receptor signaling pathways in pathogenesis, carcinogenesis, and cancer progression using novel in vitro and in vivo translational preclinical research models. He is now working on translational prevention and therapeutic research projects on kidney diseases, focusing on understanding mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of both acute and chronic kidney disease, specifically in understanding the roles of COX-2 and prostaglandins in the kidney, and investigating the potential functions of innate and acquired immunity in the kidney in mediating recovery from acute injury or development of fibrosis.
Education
MD - Nantong University, 1986
MS - Oncological Pathology - Nantong University, 1991
PhD - Surgical Oncology - Shanghai Medical University, 1997
Fellowship - Hepatobiliary Surgery - 2nd Military Medical University, 1999
Fellowship - Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology - Institut de Genetique, 2002
Fellowship - Prostate Cancer Biology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2007
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307