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Wang (Steve) Cheung, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Wang (Steve) Cheung, MD, PhD Medical School
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA

PhD
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA

Residency
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pathology
Baltimore, MD

Fellowship
Dermatopathology
New York University
New York, NY

Board Certification(s)
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Dermatopathology

Major Interests
Dermatopathology

Research Interests
Epigenetic changes in cutaneous tumors; Molecular biology of melanoma



Selected Publications
Spicer, D.B., Rhee, J., Cheung, W.L., and Lassar, A.B. (1996). Inhibition of Myogenic bHLH and MEF2 Transcription factors by the bHLH Protein Twist. Science 272(5267): 1476-1480.

Cheung W.L., Ajiro K., Samejima K., Kloc M., Cheung P., Mizzen C.A., Beeser A., Etkin L.D., Chernoff J., Earnshaw W.C., Allis C.D. (2003). Apoptotic phosphorylation of histone H2B is mediated by mammalian sterile twenty kinase. Cell 113(4): 507-17.

Ahn S.H., Cheung W.L., Hsu J.Y., Diaz R.L., Smith M.M., Allis C.D. (2005). Sterile 20 kinase phosphorylates histone H2B at serine 10 during hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis in S. cerevisiae. Cell 120(1): 25-36.

Cheung W.L., Turner F.B., Krishnamoorthy T., Wolner B., Ahn S.H., Foley M., Dorsey J.A., Peterson C.L., Berger S.L., Allis C.D. (2005). Phosphorylation of Histone H4 Serine 1 during DNA Damage Requires Casein Kinase II in S. cerevisiae. Current Biology 15(7): 656-60.

Cheung, W.L., Krisman, D., Alvarez, H., Hood, B.L., Darfler, M.M., Maitra. A. (2008). Application of a Global Proteomic approach to archival precursor lesions in pancreatic cancer precursors. Pancreatology 8:608-616.

Cheung, W.L., Albadine, R., Sharma, R., Netto, G.N. (2009). Phosphorylated H2AX in noninvasive low grade urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: correlation with tumor recurrence. Journal of Urology 181(3): 1387-1392.



Abstracts
Cheung, W.L., Meehan, S.A. Amelanotic melanoma: an analysis of 75 cases. ASDP Oct 2008.

Cheung, W.L., Netto, G.N., Moresi, J.M. Potential utility of H2A.X in differentiating atypical melanocytic lesions. ASDP Oct 2007.

Cuda, J., Wu, J.M., Netto, G., Cheung, W.L., Expression of histone phosphorylation in basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. ASDP Oct 2007.

Cheung, W.L., Idling, J., Karanjawala, Z., Ali, S. Eccrine carcinoma: fine needle aspiration findings on two cases. ASDP Oct 2007.


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