Ka Lung Cheung, PhD

I run a lab in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. I received my Ph.D. degree from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, and worked as a postdoc in Icahn School of Medicine before promotion to Assistant Professor.  My research laboratory is directed at better understanding the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune cell-related inflammation and tissue regeneration. We employ an interdisciplinary research approach that relies on genomic sequencing, epigenetics, chemical biology, and transgenic mouse models to understand regulation of gene transcription in chromatin at the basic molecular level. We are particularly interested in studies of discovery of novel drug targets and their functional mechanisms in immune cell regulation and pathogenicity, epigenetic regulation of the intestinal homeostasis and regeneration, and crosstalk of pathogenic cell niche between hematopoietic cells and non-hematopoietic cells in inflammatory diseases.