Ong, Athena Jessica S.

Full Instructor

ajsong@usc.edu.ph

Degrees

B.S. Industrial Pharmacy, University of the Philippines Manila, 2013
M.S. Pharmacy major in Pharmaceutical Bioscience, Seoul National University, 2017
Ph.D. Oncology and Cancer Biology, The University of Melbourne, 2023

Research Interests:

Public health, education technology, bioinformatics, cancer research

Recent Publication:

1. Tan, V. W. T., Salmi, T. M., Karamalakis, A. P., Gillespie, A., Ong, A. J. S., Balic, J. J., Chan, Y. C., Bladen, C. E., Brown, K. K., Dawson, M. A., & Cox, A. G. (2024). SLAM-ITseq identifies that Nrf2 induces liver regeneration through the pentose phosphate pathway. Developmental Cell 59(7): 898–910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.01.024

2. Ong, A.; Saeidi, S.; Chi, N.; Kim, S.; Kim, D. et al. 2020. “The positive feedback loop between Nrf2 and phosphogluconate dehydrogenase stimulates proliferation and clonogenicity of human hepatoma cells.” Free Radic. Res., 1-12.

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