PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS:

• Merck Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1988-1989)
• The New Jersey Cancer Research Award for Scientific Excellence (1997)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the New Jersey Commission for Cancer Research (1995-1996)

RESEARCH GRANTS:

Active Grants:

UMDNJ-Foundation, "Interaction between the Ah receptor and NFkB signal transduction pathway" $25,000; Principal Investigator.

Grant Pending:

NIEHS, "Interactions between Ah receptor and NF-kb pathways", $605,185 (Note, the review of this grant is complete and the priority score is 179 and a percentile is 12.4).

Tian, Y., Ke, S., Denison, M., Rabson, A., and Gallo, M. A. Interaction between the Ah receptor and NF-_KB signal transduction pathway: potential mechanism for dioxin toxicity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274,510-515.

Tian, Y., Ke, S., Thomas, T., Meeker, R. J. and Gallo, M. A. Transcriptional suppression of estrogen receptor gene expression by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo. p-dioxin (TCDD). The Journal of the steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 67, 17-24.

Tian, Y., Ke, S., Thomas, T., Meeker, R. J. and Gallo, M. A. (1998) Regulation of estrogen receptor mRNA by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as measured by competitive RT-PCR. Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology. 12, 71-77.

Jin, Y., Heck, DE., DeGeorge, G., Tian, Y. and Laskin, J. D. (1996) 5-Fluorouracil suppresses nitric oxide biosynthesis in colon carcinoma. Cancer Research. 56, 1978-1982.

Hillman, B. I., Tian, Y., Bedker, P. J., and Brown, M. P. (1992) A north American hypovirulent isolate of the chestnut blight fungus with European isolate-related dsRNA. Journal of General Virology. 73, 681-686.

Tian, Y., de Lara, J., Gallo, M. A., and Ward, W. S. Isolation of DNA sequences associated with the Hamster sperm nuclear annulus. (Submitted to Journal of Andrology, 1999).

Tian, Y., Ke, S., Germino, J.F., Meeker, R. J., and Gallo, M. A. Gene regulation of de novo cholesterol synthesis by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (in preparation)