Profiles
Jason Lieberthal, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position:
Resident in Internal Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, MA
Graduate: 2009
BA, Boston University
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Faculty Mentor: Naoko Tanese, Ph.D.
I started the MD/PhD program in 2001, got my PhD in Naoko Tanese’s lab, and I am now a Resident in Internal Medicine at the Boston University Medical Center.
Thesis
Characterization of the HP1α Gene Promoter Region and Implications for Reduced Expression in Breast Cancer Cells
Research Interests
In Dr. Tanese’s lab I worked on characterizing the expression of HP1α, a gene that has been identified as an invasion suppressor in breast cancer cells.
Selected Publications
Lieberthal JG, Kaminsky M, Parkhurst CN, Tanese N. The role of YY1 in reduced HP1alpha gene expression in invasive human breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res. 2009 Jun;11(3):R42. Epub 2009 Jun 30. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 19566924. doi: 10.1186/bcr2329. PMCID: PMC2716511.
Lieberthal J. Characterization of the HP1 alpha Promoter Region and Implications for Reduced Expression in Breast Cancer Cells (Poster Presentation). Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription Meeting, August 2007: Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 2007 Aug;
Dustin ML, Jiyun K, Lieberthal J, Littman DR, Davalos D, Gan W. Neural and immune synaptic relations (Abstract). J Neuroimmunol. 2004 Sep;154(1-2):5. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.06.010.
