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D-Index
71
Citations
25879
World Ranking
6524
National Ranking
235

Overview

Fan Zhang is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including molecular biology, epidemiology, hepatology, cell biology, and surgery.

Their recent published papers cover a range of biomedical topics and have appeared in notable scientific journals:

  • IL-6/STAT3 axis dictates the PNPLA3-mediated susceptibility to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
  • Probiotics alleviate autoimmune hepatitis in mice through modulation of gut microbiota and intestinal permeability, 2021, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
  • Prevalence and Patterns of Comorbidity Among Middle-Aged and Elderly People in China: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on CHARLS Data, 2021, International Journal of General Medicine
  • Bi@C Nanospheres with the Unique Petaloid Core-Shell Structure Anchored on Porous Graphene Nanosheets as an Anode for Stable Sodium- and Potassium-Ion Batteries, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Targeting mTOR/YY1 signaling pathway by quercetin through CYP7A1-mediated cholesterol-to-bile acids conversion alleviated type 2 diabetes mellitus induced hepatic lipid accumulation, 2023, Phytomedicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Fan Zhang include:

  • Zihua Gong
  • Dongyuan Lü
  • Mian Long
  • Mei Zhang
  • Jie Yu

Fan Zhang's work has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues, demonstrating continuous engagement with ongoing research communities. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Research Square
  • Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research extensively covers major topics related to liver disease, including diagnosis and treatment as well as transplantation. Other significant research topics include DNA repair mechanisms, hepatitis B and C virus studies, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, and RNA modifications in cancer.

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Chemokine-mediated interaction of hematopoietic progenitors with the bone marrow vascular niche is required for thrombopoiesis.

    Scott T. Avecilla;Koichi Hattori;Beate Heissig;Rafael Tejada

  • Cytokine-mediated deployment of SDF-1 induces revascularization through recruitment of CXCR4+ hemangiocytes

    David K Jin;Koji Shido;Hans-Georg Kopp;Isabelle Petit

  • A module of negative feedback regulators defines growth factor signaling.

    Ido Amit;Ami Citri;Ami Citri;Tal Shay;Yiling Lu

  • A pan-cancer proteomic perspective on The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Rehan Akbani;Patrick Kwok Shing Ng;Henrica M.J. Werner;Maria Shahmoradgoli

  • Down-regulation of caspase 3 in breast cancer: a possible mechanism for chemoresistance

    Eswaran Devarajan;Aysegul A. Sahin;Jack S. Chen;Raghu R. Krishnamurthy

  • Generation of functional multipotent adult stem cells from GPR125 + germline progenitors

    Marco Seandel;Marco Seandel;Daylon James;Sergey V. Shmelkov;Ilaria Falciatori

  • High Frequency of PIK3R1 and PIK3R2 Mutations in Endometrial Cancer Elucidates a Novel Mechanism for Regulation of PTEN Protein Stability

    Lydia W.T. Cheung;Bryan T. Hennessy;Bryan T. Hennessy;Jie Li;Shuangxing Yu

  • Tight Binding of the Phosphorylated α Subunit of Initiation Factor 2 (eIF2α) to the Regulatory Subunits of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor eIF2B Is Required for Inhibition of Translation Initiation

    Thanuja Krishnamoorthy;Graham D. Pavitt;Fan Zhang;Thomas E. Dever

  • Expression of Autotaxin and Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptors Increases Mammary Tumorigenesis, Invasion, and Metastases

    Shuying Liu;Makiko Umezu-Goto;Mandi Murph;Yiling Lu

  • Autophosphorylation in the Activation Loop Is Required for Full Kinase Activity In Vivo of Human and Yeast Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α Kinases PKR and GCN2

    Patrick R. Romano;Minerva T. Garcia-Barrio;Xiaolong Zhang;Qizhi Wang

  • VEGF-B is dispensable for blood vessel growth but critical for their survival, and VEGF-B targeting inhibits pathological angiogenesis

    Fan Zhang;Zhongshu Tang;Xu Hou;Johan Lennartsson

  • Whole-exome sequencing combined with functional genomics reveals novel candidate driver cancer genes in endometrial cancer

    Han Liang;Lydia W.T. Cheung;Jie Li;Zhenlin Ju

  • Oncogenic PIK3CA-driven mammary tumors frequently recur via PI3K pathway-dependent and PI3K pathway-independent mechanisms

    Pixu Liu;Hailing Cheng;Stephanie Santiago;Maria Raeder;Maria Raeder

  • Gcn5 Promotes Acetylation, Eviction, and Methylation of Nucleosomes in Transcribed Coding Regions

    Chhabi K. Govind;Fan Zhang;Hongfang Qiu;Kimberly Hofmeyer

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • YB-1 regulates stress granule formation and tumor progression by translationally activating G3BP1.

    Syam Prakash Somasekharan;Syam Prakash Somasekharan;Amal El-Naggar;Amal El-Naggar;Gabriel Leprivier;Hongwei Cheng

  • A Technical Assessment of the Utility of Reverse Phase Protein Arrays for the Study of the Functional Proteome in Non-microdissected Human Breast Cancers

    Bryan T. Hennessy;Yiling Lu;Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo;Mark S. Carey

  • Inhibition of Double-Stranded RNA-Dependent Protein Kinase PKR by Vaccinia Virus E3: Role of Complex Formation and the E3 N-Terminal Domain

    Patrick R. Romano;Fan Zhang;Seng Lai Tan;Minerva T. Garcia-Barrio

  • The Placental Gene PEG10 Promotes Progression of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

    Shusuke Akamatsu;Alexander W. Wyatt;Dong Lin;Summer Lysakowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Gleave
Martin E. Gleave University of British Columbia
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Alan G. Hinnebusch
Alan G. Hinnebusch National Institutes of Health
Xuri Li
Xuri Li Sun Yat-sen University
Yiling Lu
Yiling Lu The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Shahin Rafii
Shahin Rafii Cornell University
Ladan Fazli
Ladan Fazli University of British Columbia
Poul H. Sorensen
Poul H. Sorensen University of British Columbia
Yuzhuo Wang
Yuzhuo Wang University of British Columbia
Amina Zoubeidi
Amina Zoubeidi University of British Columbia

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