Lai-Jung Tai

Lai-Jung Tai

Lai-Jung Tai, MD, PhD.

Dr. Tai came to the PSTP at UCSD after graduating Summa Cum Laude from UCSD and then obtained M.D./Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 2003. Lai is a fellow in endocrinology and is working in transcriptional regulation in the laboratory of Dr. Ron Evans at the Salk Institute.

Selected Publications

  1. MacKenna, DA, Omens, JH, Tai, LJ, McCulloch, AD, Covell, JW: Effects of Collagenase in the Mechanics of the Arrested Rat Left Ventricle(LV). FASEB, 6(4): A1487, 1992.
  2. Evans, SM, Tai, LJ, Tan, VP, Newton, CB, Chien, KR: Cardiac: Fibroblast Heterokaryons Reveal lack of Dominance of the Cardiac Muscle Phenotype. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 14(6): 4269-79, 1994.
  3. Tai, LJ, McFall, SM, Huang, K, Demeler, B, Fox, SG, Brubaker, K, Radhakrishnan I, Morimoto RI: Structure-Function Analysis of the Heat Shock Factor Binding Protein Reveals a Protein Composed Solely of a Highly Conserved and Dynamic Coiled-Coil Trimerization Domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277: 735-745, 2002.
  4. Westerheide, S, Tai LJ, Schwabenbauer, S, Morimoto, RI: Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) Mediated Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Activation of the Heat Shock Response Leading to Cytoprotection. In preparation.