Titles and Roles
- Instructor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Research Program
- Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Biography
Jiusheng Deng, PhD is an Instructor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Deng is an active member of American Society of Hematology, American Association of Cancer Research, and Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.
Education
Dr. Deng received his PhD from Tel Aviv University School of Medicine in Israel. He completed his postdoc training in Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School and Emory University. He then worked as a Research Associate in Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2011, Dr. Deng became an Instructor of Hematology and Medical Oncology in Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University.
Research
Dr. Deng's research focuses on developing novel immune therapeutics against cancers; in particular, he is interested in the utilization of bioengineered fusion cytokines to reprogram patient immune cells for personalized cancer immunotherapy.
Publications
He has authored a number of peer-reviewed publications in the elite journals such as Cancer Research, Molecular Cancer, Circulation, Nature Medicine, and Nature Immunology.
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Awards
Dr. Deng is the recipient of Biotechnology Scholarship Award (United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization in Paris), Emory Winship Robbins Scholar Award, and Emory Winship Melanoma Research Fund, Winship Myeloma Fund, and Emory/Georgia Tech ImmunoEngineering Fund.
Dr. Deng has also been named to the MilliPub Club, which recognizes current Emory University School of Medicine faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have garnered more than 1,000 citations.