Dr. Jie Shen’s research mainly focuses on investigating the roles of molecular, social, and epidemiological factors, and their interactions, in the etiology, outcomes and racial disparities of cancer. She has interest to elucidate the underlying mechanisms linking social contexts, biology, to cancer outcomes and racial disparities. Prior to UVA, Dr. Shen was an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908
Email: cua9zd@virginia.edu
Education:
- Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Cancer Epidemiology, Tulane University
- Ph.D., Cancer biology, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and MD Anderson Cancer Center
- M.S., Microbiology, Fudan University
- B.S., Microbiology, Fudan University
Expertise:
Cancer biomarkers, Molecular cancer epidemiology
Research Interests:
- Biomarkers for cancer risk assessment and prediction of outcomes
- Social adversity (e.g., neighborhood disadvantage) and cancer
- Racial disparities in cancer
- Chronic stress and cancer
Selected publications:
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- Shen J, Fuemmeler BF, Sheppard VB, Bear HD, Song R, Chow WH, Zhao H. Neighborhood disadvantage and biological aging biomarkers among breast cancer patients. Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 30;12(1):11006.
- Zhao H, Song R, Ye Y, Chow WH, Shen J. Allostatic score and its associations with demographics, health behaviors, tumor characteristics, and mitochondrial DNA among breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Jun;187(2):587-596.
- Shen J, Hodges TR, Song R, Gong Y, Calin GA, Heimberger AB, Zhao H. Serum HOTAIR and GAS5 levels as predictors of survival in patients with glioblastoma. Mol Carcinog. 2018 Jan; 57(1):137-141.
- Shen J, Hu Q, Schrauder M, Yan L, Wang D, Medico L, Guo Y, Yao S, Zhu Q, Liu B, Qin M, Beckmann MW, Fasching PA, Strick R, Johnson CS, Ambrosone CB, Zhao H, Liu S. Circulating miR-148b and miR-133a as biomarkers for breast cancer detection. 2014 Jul; 5(14):5284-94.
- Shen J, Behrens C, Wistuba II, Feng L, Lee JJ, Hong WK, Lotan R. Identification and validation of differences in protein levels in normal, premalignant, and malignant lung cells and tissues using high-throughput western array and immunohistochemistry. Cancer Res. 2006 Dec; 66(23):11194-206.
Full list of publications: Research Gate