Jeff Hsu

Advisor

Current Position

Visiting Expert, Academia Sinica, Dept. of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, Rosewell Park Cancer Institute Div., Ph.D. (Microbiology/Immunology), 2007
The University of Queensland, Ph.D. (Pharmacology) interrupted, 1998
The University of Queensland, B.S. with Honors (Pharmacology), 1997
The University of Queensland, B.S. (Biochemistry, Pharmacology & Physiology), 1996

Bar Admissions

Admitted to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Experiences

Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Health Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Biology

Predoctoral Fellow, Rosewell Park Cancer Institute

Research Assistant, National Taiwan University Hospital and Academia Sinica

Research Scholar, The University of Queensland

Honors and Awards

2011 2012 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health

2011 Poster Award, Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands and Exocrine Biology

2009 2010 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health

2005-07 F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health

2005 Inventor of the year (3rd place), Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association

2002-03 T32 Predoctoral Traineeship Award, National Institutes of Health

1997 Division A, Class Two Honors in Bachelor of Science, The University of Queensland

Publications

Tsao, C.Y., Sabbatino, F., Cheung, N-K.V., Hsu, J.C., Villani, V., Wang, X., Ferrone, S. Anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic activity of GD2 ganglioside-specific monoclonal antibody 3F8 in human melanoma cells. OncoImmunology, 2015, 4:e1023975

Hsu J.C., Koo, H., Harunaga, J.S., Matsumoto, K., Doyle, A.D., Yamada, K.M. Region-specific epithelial cell dynamics during branching morphogenesis. Dev. Dyn. 2013, 242:1066-1077

Hsu, J.C., Di Pasquale, G., Harunaga, J., Onodera, T., Hoffman, M.P., Chiorini, J.A., Yamada, K.M. Viral gene transfer to developing mouse salivary glands. J. Dent. Res. 2012, 91:197-202

Musselmann, K., Green, J.A., Sone, K., Hsu, J.C., Bothwell, I., Johnson, S.A., Harunaga, J., Wei, Z., Yamada, K.M. Salivary Gland Gene Expression Atlas Identifies a New Regulator of Branching Morphogenesis. J. Dent. Res. 2011, 90:1078-1084

Harunaga, J., Hsu, J.C., Yamada, K.M. Dynamics of Salivary Gland Morphogenesis. J. Dent. Res. 2011, 90:1070-1077

Hsu, J.C.*, Onodera, T.*, Sakai, T.*, Matsumoto, K., Chiorini, J.A., Yamada, K.M. Btbd7 regulates epithelial cell dynamics and branching morphogenesis. Science. 2010, 329:562-565 *These authors contributed equally to this work

Hsu, J.C., Yamada, K.M. Salivary gland branching morphogenesis – Recent progress and future opportunities. Int. J. Oral. Sci. 2010, 2: 117-126

Luo, W., Ko, E., Hsu, J.C., Wang, X., Ferrone, S. Targeting melanoma cells with HMW-MAA-specific antibodies elicited by a peptide mimotope: functional effects. J. Immunol. 2006, 176:6046-6054

Luo, W., Hsu, J.C., Tsao, C.Y., Ko, E., Wang, X., Ferrone, S. Differential immunogenicity of two isolated by high molecular weight-melanoma associated antigen (HMW-MAA)-specific monoclonal antibodies with different affinities. J. Immunol. 2005, 174:7104-7110

Luo W., Hsu, J.C., Kieber-Emmons, T. Wang, X., Ferrone, S. Human tumor associated antigen mimicry by xenoantigens, anti-idiotypic antibodies and peptide mimics: Implications for immunotherapy of malignant diseases. Cancer Chemother. Biol. Response Modif. 2005, 22:769-787