Yinling Hu, Ph.D.

The research interests of the Inflammation and Tumorigenesis Section are to understand the physiological activities of IKKα in skin tumorigenesis and inflammation and to reveal the mechanisms by which IKKα regulates these functions using genetic animal models, including IKKα conditional knockout, IKKα kinase inactive knockin and IKKα transgenic mice, as well as molecular biology approaches.

Dr. Hu received her undergraduate degree from the Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China and received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Karin's laboratory, University of California at San Diego from 1996 to 2001. Dr. Hu established her own laboratory in 2001 when she became an assistant professor at the Science Park Research Division, MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2008 she became a principal investigator in the Cancer and Inflammation Program and was awarded tenure in 2016.