Rui Sun Professor, Institute of Immunology School of Life Science University of Science & Technology of China
EDUCATION 03/1978-12/1982: Bachelor of Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, China 09/1997-06/2000: M.S., Immunology, Normal Bethune Med Univ, Changchun, China.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 10/1985-03/2001: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Shandong Acad Med Sci, China 09/1995-09/1996: Visiting Scientist, NCI, NIH, USA 03/2001–03/2002: Visiting Scientist, NCI, NIH, USA 04/2002–03/2006: Visiting Scientist, NIAAA, NIH, USA 06/2006–present: Professor, Univ Sci Tech China, China
RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Innate Immune Recognition of Natural KIller (NK) Cells 2. NK/NKT Cells in Liver Injury and Regeneration
SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS 1. Sun R, Park O, Horiguchi N, Kulkarni S, Jeong W-IL, Sun HY, Radaeva S and Gao B. STAT1 contributes to dsRNA inhibition if liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in mice. Hepatology. 2006; 44: 955-966. 2. Sun R, Gao B. Negative regulation of liver regeneration by innate immunity (natural killer cells/interferon-gamma). Gastroenterology. 2004 Nov;127(5):1525-39. 3. Sun R, Tian Z, Kulkarni S, Gao B. IL-6 prevents T cell-mediated hepatitis via inhibition of NKT cells in CD4+ T cell- and STAT3-dependent manners. J Immunol. 2004 May 1;172(9):5648-55. 4. Sun R, Jaruga B, Kulkarni S, Sun HY and Gao B. IL-6modulates hepatocyte proliferation via inducytion of HCF/p21cip1: Regulation by SOCS3. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication. 2005; 338: 1943-1949 5. Radaeva S, Sun S, Jaruga B, Nguyen VT, Tian Z, Gao B. Natural Killer Cells Ameliorate Liver Fibrosis by Killing Activated Stellate Cells in NKG2D- dependent and tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-dependent manners. Ganstroenterology. 2006; 130: 435-452 6. Jin Z, Sun R, Wei H, Gao Y, Chen Y, Tian Z. Natural killer T cells aggravate liver fibrosis of HBV transgenic mice via activating hepatic stellate cells. Hepatology 2010,49:xxx 7. Jiang W, Sun R, Wei H, Zhou R, Tian Z. Toll-like receptor 9 activation aggravates Con A-induced hepatitis via promoting accumulation and activation of liver CD4+ NKT cells. J Immunol 2009; 182:3768-74
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Molecular Immunology (Rui Sun's Lab)