Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Radiation Oncology

Deng Laboratory

Led by principal investigator Xingming Deng, MD, PhD, the Deng Laboratory is located at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Principal Investigator

An accomplished cancer researcher, Xingming Deng, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair in Cancer Biology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine.

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Meet Dr. Deng and his lab team
Xingming Deng, MD, PhD in his laboratory.

Research

Research work in the Deng Laboratory is developing novel anticancer therapies through modulation of apoptotic cell death, DNA replication stress, DNA damage/repair, senescence and immune response.

Researcher Changyong Wei, PhD working at the lab bench.

Publications

A prolific scientific author, Dr. Deng has been published in numerous high impact journals including Molecular Cell, Cancer Cell, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation and PNAS.

Laboratory tubes prepped and labeled for use in experiments.

Lab Team

Our lab team consists of skilled scientists with expertise in DNA repair pathways, cancer cell metabolism and carcinogenesis.

Group image of Deng lab team

Lab News

More Lab News

Winship Newsroom NCI funds study of new targeted lung cancer treatment July 1, 2021

Emory Office of Technology Transfer Mcl-1 & Lung Cancer: Improving Lung Cancer Treatment with Small Molecules May 24, 2021

Winship Newsroom Targeting old bottleneck reveals new anticancer drug discovery strategy July 18, 2019