Prof Youqiang Ke

Professor in Molecular Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK

                  

Dr Youqiang Ke is a Professor and the Director of Molecular Pathology at the School of Cancer Studies, Liverpool University, UK. Dr Ke obtained his PhD from Leeds University and joined the Cancer & Polio Research Laboratories (headed by Professor PS Rudland) in Liverpool University in 1989 to work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a project titled “Identification of DNA regions responsible for metastasis of breast cancer”. In 1994, Dr Ke became a lecturer in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of the same university and started his work on molecular pathology of prostate cancer. Dr Ke was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001, Reader in 2003 and a Full Professor in 2005.

During the years, Dr Ke has focused his research on the identification of genes involved in the malignant progression of prostate cancer using the differential display method as the core technique to identify candidate genes expressed differentially between benign and malignant model cells. Many of his research results are published in leading journals in the filed including Cancer Research, Clin. Cancer Res, Br. J. Cancer, FEBS Let, Oncogene etc.