Amara Pang
Current Program Year: Grad 1
Current Student, Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program, School of Medicine
M.D./Ph.D. Program Students, School of Medicine
Biography
Research interests: Oncology, developmental biology, hematopoiesis, and stem cell biology
Clinical interests: Pediatric Hem/Onc or OBGYN
Education and training
B.S., 2018, University of California, Los Angeles
Fellowship: Undergraduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017
Honors and awards
Ellen Richardson Scholar, 2021
Publications
Selected publications
Termini, C.M., Pang, A, Batton, D.M., and Chute, J.P. Proteoglycans regulate receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase - sigma organization on hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. 27 January 2021. Experimental Hematology. DOI 10.1016/j.exphem.2021.01.005.
Termini, C.M., and Pang, A. Beyond the bench: how inclusion and exclusion make us the scientists we are. Mol Biol Cell 31, 2164-2167. 15 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E20-06-0374
Himburg, H.A., Roos, M., Schlussel, L., Kim, M., Termini, C.M., Pang, A., Khan, J., Zhao, L., Suh, H., Sasine, J.P., Schiller, G., and Chute, J.P. Chronic myelogenous leukemia stem cells require autocrine pleiotrophin signaling. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 15 October 2019. DOI 10.1172/JCI129061
Fang, T., Zhang, Y., Chang, V., Roos, M., Termini, C.M., Signaevskaia, L., Quarmyne, M, Lin, P., Pang, A., Khan, J., Yan, X., Javier, A., Pohl, K., Zhao, L., Scott, P., Himburg, H., and Chute, J.P. Epidermal growth factor receptor-dependent DNA repair promotes murine and human hematopoietic regulation. Blood. 05 May 2020. DOI 10.1182/blood.2020005895