Dr. Ming Tan holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and serves as an Associate Professor, Chief of Center for Cell Death and Metabolism, and an Endowed Scholar at Mitchell Cancer Institute, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala, USA. Upon earning his Ph.D. degree in cancer biology from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex, USA, in 2000, Tan continued his research on the mechanisms of oncogene-induced cancer progression and therapeutic resistance as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined the faculty at Mitchell Cancer Institute at the University of South Alabama in 2007, where he conducted research on metabolism and cancer, mechanism of cancer cell therapeutic resistance, invasion and metastasis, and microRNA in cancer development.
- Metabolism and cancer
- MicroRNA and cancer
- Cancer metastasis
- Therapeutic resistance
- Targeted cancer therapy
