Non-coding RNA functional exploration in Pancreatic Cancer

Activity: SupervisionCompleted SURF Project

Description

Pancreatic cancer (PDA) is an extremely lethal tumor with a death rate » 90% in 5 years. Most of pancreatic
cancer patients are either unresectable or metastatic disease. Even some new diagnostic and treatment
techniques are developed, the patient outcomes are still modest.
In human, only ~2% of genome are coding genes (transcribed into mRNAs), while actually more than 80% of the
genome are transcribed actively which means majority of RNAs are noncoding RNAs.
A large number of dysregulated noncoding RNAs have been identified in pancreatic cancers(PDA), but only a
limited number of them was studied. To explore the importance of the noncoding RNAs (long noncoding RNAs and
miRNAs) and maybe some coding genes, we will use NGS-based high throughput screening method combining with
gene editing strategy to identify key noncoding RNAs that are essential for pancreatic tumor cell
proliferation/apoptosis and further validate their functions in tumor formation in PDA mouse model,
illustrating the under
Period1 Jul 202528 Aug 2025