Department of Pathology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
 

Name and Present Position:

SHENG XIAO, Co-director, Solid Tumor Cytogenetics

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115

Medical School (including school name, date and degree awarded):

1984 M.D. Suzhou Medical College, China
1989 M.S. Harbin Medical College (Medical Genetics), China

  Graduate Medical Education:

1984 Intern in Medicine, Suzhou People's Hospital, Jisun, China
1984-86 Resident in Surgery, Ning Xiang 716 Hospital, Hunan, China
1986-87 Research Fellow in Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical College, Harbin, China
1987-89 Clinical Fellow in Medical Genetics, Harbin Medical College
1993-96 Research Fellow in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Certification:

1984 National Board of Medicine (China)
1999 American Board of Medical Genetics: Clinical Cytogenetics
2001 Active candidate of the American Board of Medical Genetics: Clinical Molecular Genetics

Current Academic Appointment:

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointment:

Co-director, Solid Tumor Cytogenetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selected Bibliography:

  • Xiao S, Li D, Vijg J, Corson JM, Sugarbaker DS, Fletcher JA. Codeletion of p15 and p16 in primary malignant mesothelioma. Oncogene 1995; 11:511-515.
  • Xiao S, Renshaw A, Cibas ES, Hudson TJ, Fletcher JA. Novel fluorescence in situ hybridization approaches in solid tumors: Characterization of frozen specimens, touch preparations, and cytologic preparations. Am J Pathol 1995; 147:896-904.
  • Xiao S, Li D, Corson JM, Vijg J, Fletcher JA. Codeletion of p15 and p16 genes in primary non-small cell lung carcinoma. Cancer Res 1995; 55:2968-2971.
  • Xiao S, Lux ML, Reeves R, Hudson TJ, Fletcher JA. HMGI(Y) activation by chromosome 6p21 rearrangements in multilineage cells from pulmonary harmartoma. Am J Pathol 1997; 150:901-910.
  • Xiao S, Nalabolu SR, Aster JC, Ma J, Abruzzo L, Jaffe ES, Stone R, Weissman SM, Hudson TJ, Fletcher JA. FGFR1 fused with a novel zinc finger gene, ZNF-198, in the t(8;13) lymphoma syndrome. Nat Genet 1998; 18:84-87.
  • Xiao S, McCarthy MG, Aster J, Fletcher JA. ZNF198-FGFR1 transforming activity depends on a novel proline-rich ZNF198 oligomerization domain. Blood 2000; 96:699-704.