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   Yijun Zhu, MD
   Associate Professor of Pathology
   Director, Virology Laboratory        
   Tarry 7-723
   303 E. Chicago Avenue  
   Chicago, IL  60611

   y-zhu2@northwestern.edu  

Phone:  (312) 503-3113
Fax:  (312) 503-8240  

Clinical Pathology
Microbiology/Virology  

Medical School

TongJi Medical University (China)

Site of Residency

Northwestern University Medical School


Research Interests

To understand the role of nuclear receptor coactivators in regulation of cell specific gene transcriptional activation by estrogen receptor, and how the interruption to this regulation contributes to breast tumorigenesis.

Selected Publications

Qi C, Zhu YT, Chang J, Yeldandi AV, Rao MS, Zhu YJ. Potentiation of estrogen receptor transcriptional activity by breast cancer amplified sequence 2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 328:393-8, 2005.

Mo R, Rao SM, Zhu YJ. Identification of the MLL2 complex as a coactivator for estrogen receptor a. J Biol Chem. 281:15714-20 2006


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