Dr. Duojia Pan Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Duojia Pan received his BS degree in biochemistry from Beijing University in 1988 and PhD degree in biological chemistry from UCLA in 1993. From 1993 to 1998, he was a Jane Coffin Child Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Gerald Rubin where he studied Hedgehog and Notch signaling. In 1998,... read morehe joined the Department of Physiology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as an Endowed Scholar in Biomedical Research and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004. In December 2004, he joined the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory uses Drosophila and mice to investigate size-control mechanisms in normal development and their pathological roles in cancer growth.