Lanjing Zhang, MD

Research Professor

Department of Chemical Biology
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Rutgers University
Office Room #: 107, 164 Frelinghuysen Rd.

Piscataway, NJ 08854
E-mail: Lanjing.Zhang #at# rutgers.edu
Lab webpage: https://thezhanglab.github.io/

Machine learning, Cancer, Epidemiology

Full Member

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Phone: (848) 445-8004

Fax: (732) 445-0687


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Current Research

1.      IIS-2128307 EAGER: Integration and analysis of high-dimensional dataset

2.      R37CA277812 SCH: Screening and confirmatory machine learning for explainable modeling of non-cancer deaths in cancer patients

 

Selected publications

1.      Chavali LB# Hu K#, Sheth A, Gao N, Xiong W*, Zhang L* (2020) Clinicopathological characteristics and synchronous neoplasm of sessile serrated adenoma. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 32(2):199-204. DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0000000000001642 PMID: 31851088 

2.      Zhang M, Hu W, Hu K, Lin Y, Feng Z, Yun JP, Gao N, Zhang L. (2020) Association of Kras mutation with tumor deposit status and overall survival of colorectal cancer. Cancer Causes Control. 31(7):683-689. DOI: 10.1007/s10552-020-01313-0 PMID: 32394229

3.      Yu S, Balasubramanian I, Laubitz D, Tong K, Bandyopadhyay S, Lin X, Flores J, Singh R, Liu Y, Macazana C, Zhao Y, B guet-Crespel F, Patil K, Midura-Kiela MT, Wang D, Yap GS, Ferraris RP, Wei Z, Bonder EM, H ggblom MM, Zhang L, Douard V, Verzi MP, Cadwell K, Kiela PR, Gao N. (2020) Paneth Cell-Derived Lysozyme Defines the Composition of Mucolytic Microbiota and the Inflammatory Tone of the Intestine. Immunity. 53(2):398-416.e8. PIMD: 32814028 

4.      Deng F, Zhou H, Lin Y, Heim J, Shen L, Li Y, Zhang L. (2021) Predict multicategory causes of death in lung cancer patients using clinicopathologic factors. Comput Biol Med 129:104161 Doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.104161 PMID: 33307409 

5.      Deng F, Huang J, Yuan X, Cheng C, Zhang L. (2021) Performance and efficiency of machine learning algorithms for analyzing rectangular biomedical data. Lab Invest. 101(4):430-441. doi: 10.1038/s41374-020-00525-x. PMID: 33574440.

6.      Zhang B, Yao K, Zhou E, Zhang L, Cheng, C. (2021) Chr20q amplification defines a distinct molecular subtype of microsatellite stable colorectal cancers. Cancer Res. 15;81(8):1977-1987. PMID: 33619118

7.      Chang CY, Wang J, Zhao Y, Liu Y, Yang X, Yue X, Wang H, Zhou F, Inclan-Rico J, Ponessa J, Xie P, Zhang L, Siracusa M, Feng Z, Hu W. (2021) Tumor suppressor p53 regulates intestinal type 2 immunity. Nat Commun. 12(1):3371. PMID: 34099671.

8.      Feng CH, Disis ML, Cheng C, Zhang L. (2021) Multimetric feature selection for analyzing multicategory outcomes of colorectal cancer: random forest and multinomial logistic regression models. Lab Invest. doi: doi: 10.1038/s41374-021-00662-x. PMID: 34537824 

9.      Shen M, Wei Y, Kim H, Wan L, Jiang YZ, Hang X, Raba M, Remiszewski S, Rowicki M, Wu CG, Wu S, Zhang L, Lu X, Yuan M, Smith HA, Zheng A, Bertino J, Jin JF, Xing Y, Shao ZM, Kang Y. (2022) Small-molecule inhibitors that disrupt the MTDH SND1 complex suppress breast cancer progression and metastasis. Nat Cancer. 3(1):43-59. PMID: 35121987 

10.  Cui M, Cheng C*, Zhang L*. (2022) High-throughput proteomics: a methodological mini-review. Lab Invest. 102(11):1170-1181. doi: 10.1038/s41374-022-00830-7. PMID: 35922478

11.  Liu J, Zhang C, Zhang T, Chang CY, Wang J, Bazile L, Zhang L, Haffty BG, Hu W, Feng Z. (2022) Metabolic enzyme LDHA activates Rac1 GTPase as a noncanonical mechanism to promote cancer. Nat Metab. 4(12):1830-1846. doi: 10.1038/s42255-022-00708-4. PMID: 36536137.

12.  Liu J, Zhang C, Xu D, Zhang T, Chang CY, Wang J, Liu J, Zhang L, Haffty BG, Zong WX, Hu W, Feng Z. (2023) The ubiquitin ligase TRIM21 regulates mutant p53 accumulation and gain-of-function in cancer. J Clin Invest. 2023 Feb 7:e164354. doi: 10.1172/JCI164354. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36749630.

13.  Deng F, Zhao L, Yu N, Lin Y, Zhang L. Union With Recursive Feature Elimination: A Feature Selection Framework to Improve the Classification Performance of Multicategory Causes of Death in Colorectal Cancer. Lab Invest. 2023 Dec 28;104(3):100320. doi: 10.1016/j.labinv.2023.100320. PMID: 38158124.

14.  Yang L, Peery RC, Farmer LM, Gao X, Zhang Y, Creighton CJ, Zhang L, Shen L. Dietary Folate and Cofactors Accelerate Age-dependent p16 Epimutation to Promote Intestinal Tumorigenesis. Cancer Res Commun. 2024 Jan 19;4(1):164-169. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0356. PMID: 38259096

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