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Name: Wenting Liao
Title: Professor
Email: liaowt@sysucc.org.cn
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Dr.Wenting Liao is a Professor in the Department of Experimental Research at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. She received her M.D. in Clinical Medicine from the University of South China and her Ph.D. in Oncology from Sun Yat-sen University (Mentor: Yixin Zeng). Dr. Liao conducted her postdoctoral research with Professor Yanqing Ding at Southern Medical University in China, majoring in Pathology, and with Dr. Ronald DePinho at MD Anderson Cancer Center, majoring in cancer immunology and mouse models. 
Interests
Dr. Liao's research focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cancer-immune microenvironment crosstalk in primary tumors and metastases, especially in colorectal cancer. Her laboratory has made significant contributions to identifying novel cancer immune evasion mechanisms mediated by oncogenes such as KRAS. These findings have led to the development of new strategies to sensitize advanced malignancies to immunotherapy. Additionally, Dr. Liao's team is developing innovative immune-therapeutics and molecularly targeted therapeutics, including new small molecule drugs as well as protein and peptide-based therapeutics. She has published over 30 papers, including several in renowned journals such as Cancer Cell, Science Immunology, Nature Communications, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Clinical Cancer Research.
Education
May 2015- May 2018 
Postdoctoral, Dr. DePinho Lab, Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2008- 2010  
Postdoctoral, Professor Yanqing Ding Lab, Department of Pathology, Southern Medical University, China.
2005- 2008
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China. Ph.D. in Oncology. Mentor: Prof. YiXin Zeng
2002- 2005
Sun Yat-sen University, Cancer Center, China. M.S. Oncology. Mentor: Prof. YiXin Zeng.
1997- 2002  
HengYang Medical School, Hengyang, China. M.D. Clinical Medicine.

Publications

1.  Zhou Y#, Zhang Y#, Li M#, Ming T#, Zhang C, Huang C, Li J, Li F, Li H, Zhao E, Shu F, Liu L, Pan X, Gao Y, Tian L, Song L*, Huang H*, Liao W*. Oncogenic KRAS drives immunosuppression of colorectal cancer by impairing DDX60-mediated dsRNA accumulation and viral mimicry. Sci Immunol. 2024 Oct 4;9(100):1.

2. Zhou Y#, Li H#, Zhang Y#, Zhao E, Huang C, Pan X, Shu F, Liu Z, Tang N*, Li F*, Liao W*. Deubiquitinase USP4 suppresses antitumor immunity by inhibiting IRF3 activation and tumor cell-intrinsic interferon response in colorectal cancer. Cancer Lett, 2024 May 1:589:216836.

3. The RNA m6A writer METTL3 in tumor microenvironment: emerging roles and therapeutic implications. Su W, Che L, Liao W*, Huang H*. Front Immunol. 2024 Jan 22;15:1335774.

4. Li J, Lan Z, Liao W, Horner JW, Xu X, Liu J, Yoshihama Y, Jiang S, Shim HS, Slotnik M, LaBella KA, Wu CJ, Dunner K, Jr., Hsu WH, Lee R, Khanduri I, Terranova C, Akdemir K, Chakravarti D, Shang X, Spring DJ, Wang YA, DePinho RA. Histone demethylase KDM5D upregulation drives sex differences in colon cancer. Nature, 2023; 619, 632-639.

5. Zhu Y#, Huang C#, Zhang C#, Zhou Y#, Zhao E, Zhang Y, Pan X, Huang H*, Liao W*, Wang X*. LncRNA MIR200CHG inhibits epithelial-mesenchymal transition in gastric cancer by stabilizing miR-200c from target-directed miRNA degradation. Nat Commun, 2023; 14: 8141.

6. Li M#, Huang C#, Wu Y#, Zhu L, Zhang Y, Zhou Y, Li H, Liu Z, Pan X, Wang X, Qiu J*, Li F*, Liao W*. Long non-coding RNA CCL14-AS suppresses invasiveness and lymph node metastasis of colorectal cancer cells by regulating MEP1A. Cancer Cell Int, 2023 Feb 15;23(1):27-42.

7. Shi D#, Wu X#, Jian Y#, Wang J#, Huang C, Mo S, Li Y, Li F, Zhang C, Zhang D, Zhang H, Huang H, Chen X, Wang YA, Lin C, Liu G*, Song L*, Liao W*. USP14 promotes tryptophan metabolism and immune suppression by stabilizing IDO1 in colorectal cancer. Nat Commun. 2022 Sep 26;13(1):5644.; 13, 5644.

8. Huang C#, Ou R#, Chen X#, Zhang Y, Li J, Liang Y, Zhu X, Liu L, Li M, Lin D, Qiu J, Liu G, Zhang L, Wu Y, Tang H, Liu Y, Liang L, Ding Y*, Liao W*. Tumor cell-derived SPON2 promotes M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophage infiltration and cancer progression by activating PYK2 in CRC. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Sep 28;40(1):304.

9. Wang S#, Qiu J#, Liu L#, Su C, Qi L, Huang C, Chen X, Zhang Y, Ye Y, Ding Y, Liang L*, Liao W*. CREB5 promotes invasiveness and metastasis in colorectal cancer by directly activating MET. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Aug 25;39(1):168.

10.Zhu X#, Wang F#, Wu X, Li Z, Wang Z, Ren X, Zhou Y, Song F, Liang Y, Zeng Z, Ding Y, Liao W*, Liang L*. FBX8 promotes metastatic dormancy of colorectal cancer in liver. Cell Death Dis. 2020 Aug 14;11(8):622.

11.Liao W, Overman MJ, Boutin AT, Shang X, Zhao D, Dey P, Li J, Wang G, Lan Z, Li J, Tang M, Jiang S, Ma X, Chen P, Katkhuda R, Korphaisarn K, Chakravarti D, Chang A, Spring DJ, Chang Q, Zhang J, Maru DM, Maeda DY, Zebala JA, Kopetz S, Wang YA*, DePinho RA*. KRAS-IRF2 axis drives immune suppression and immune therapy resistance in colorectal cancer. Cancer Cell, 2019 Apr 15;35(4):559-572.




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