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Xiaoyan Jiang, MD, PhD

Xiaoyan Jiang  Associate Professor
Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
Senior Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Tel: 604-675-8141
Fax: 604-877-0712
Email: xjiang
Research Interests: Gene regulation, leukemic stem cell biology, basic and translational leukemia research, signal transduction, proteomics.

Selected Publications:
Kennah E, Ringrose A, Zhou LL, Esmailzadeh S, Qian H, Su MW, Zhou Y, Jiang X.  Identification of tyrosine kinase, HCK, and tumor suppressor, BIN1, as potential mediators of AHI-1 oncogene in primary and transformed CTCL cells.  Blood 2009 [epub ahead of print Feb 10].

Forrest DL, Jiang X, Eaves CJ & Smith CL. An approach to the management of chronic myeloid leukemia in British Columbia. Curr Oncol 15: 48-55, 2008.

Jiang X, Zhao Y, Forrest D, Smith C, Eaves A and Eaves C.  Stem Cell Biomarkers in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.  Disease Markers 24:201-216, 2008.

Sheng G, Xu X, Lin Y-F, Wang C-E, Rong J, Cheng D, Peng J, Jiang X, Li S-H & Li X-J. Huntingtin-associated protein 1 interacts with Ahi1 to regulate cerebellar and brainstem development in mice. J Clin Invest 118: 2785-2795, 2008.

Zhou LL, Zhao Y, Ringrose A, DeGeer D, Kennah E, Lin AEJ, Sheng G, Li X-J, Turhan A & Jiang X. AH1-1 interacts with BCR-ABL and modulates BCR-ABL transforming activity and imatinib response of CML stem/progenitor cells.  J Exp Med 205: 2657-2671, 2008.

Jiang X, Saw KM, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Instability of BCR-ABL gene in primary and cultured chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells. J  Natl Cancer Inst 99 (9): 680-93, 2007.

Jiang X, Smith C, Eaves A, & Eaves C. The challenges of targeting chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma 7 Suppl 2: S71-80, 2007.

Jiang X, Zhao Y, Smith C, Gasparetto M, Turhan A, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells possess multiple unique features of resistance to BCR-ABL targeted therapies. Leukemia 21 (5): 926-35, 2007.

Jorgensen HG, Copland M, Allan EK, Jiang X, Eaves A, Eaves C, & Holyoake TL. Intermittent exposure of primitive quiescent chronic myeloid leukemia cells to granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in vitro promotes their elimination by imatinib mesylate. Clin Cancer Res 12 (2): 626-33, 2006.

Ringrose A, Zhou Y, Pang E, Zhou L, Lin AE, Sheng G, Li XJ, Weng A, Su MW, Pittelkow MR, & Jiang X. Evidence for an oncogenic role of AHI-1 in Sezary syndrome, a leukemic variant of human cutaneous T-cell lymphomas. Leukemia 20 (9): 1593-601, 2006.

Zeng F, Chen MJ, Baldwin DA, Gong ZJ, Yan JB, Qian H, Wang J, Jiang X, Ren ZR, Sun D, & Huang SZ. Multiorgan engraftment and differentiation of human cord blood CD34+ Lin- cells in goats assessed by gene expression profiling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103 (20): 7801-6, 2006.

Chalandon Y, Jiang X, Christ O, Loutet S, Thanopoulou E, Eaves A, & Eaves C. BCR-ABL-transduced human cord blood cells produce abnormal populations in immunodeficient mice. Leukemia 19 (3): 442-8, 2005.

Eisterer W, Jiang X, Christ O, Glimm H, Lee KH, Pang E, Lambie K, Shaw G, Holyoake TL, Petzer AL, Auewarakul C, Barnett MJ, Eaves CJ, & Eaves AC. Different subsets of primary chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells engraft immunodeficient mice and produce a model of the human disease. Leukemia 19 (3): 435-41, 2005.

Chalandon Y, Jiang X, Loutet S, Eaves AC, & Eaves CJ. Growth autonomy and lineage switching in BCR-ABL-transduced human cord blood cells depend on different functional domains of BCR-ABL. Leukemia 18 (5): 1006-12, 2004.

Jiang X, Zhao Y, Chan WY, Vercauteren S, Pang E, Kennedy S, Nicolini F, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Deregulated expression in Ph+human leukemias of AHI-1, a gene activated by insertional mutagenesis in mouse models of leukemia. Blood 103 (10): 3897-904, 2004.

Eaves C, Jiang X, Eisterer W, Chalandon Y, Porada G, Zanjani E, & Eaves A. New models to investigate mechanisms of disease genesis from primitive BCR-ABL(+) hematopoietic cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 996: 1-9, 2003.

Jiang X, Stuible M, Chalandon Y, Li A, Chan WY, Eisterer W, Krystal G, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Evidence for a positive role of SHIP in the BCR-ABL-mediated transformation of primitive murine hematopoietic cells and in human chronic myeloid leukemia. Blood 102 (8):2976-84, 2003.

Jorgensen HG, Allan EK, Jiang X, Liakopoulou E, Richmond L, Eaves CJ, Eaves AC, & Holyoake TL. Stage-specific alterations in serum levels of G-CSF in chronic myeloid leukaemia. Leukemia 17 (7): 1430-2, 2003.

Chalandon Y, Jiang X, Hazlewood G, Loutet S, Conneally E, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Modulation of p210(BCR-ABL) activity in transduced primary human hematopoietic cells controls lineage programming. Blood 99 (9): 3197-204, 2002.

Eisterer W, Jiang X, Bachelot T, Pawliuk R, Abramovich C, Leboulch P, Hogge D, & Eaves C. Unfulfilled promise of endostatin in a gene therapy-xenotransplant model of human acute lymphocytic leukemia. Mol Ther 5 (4): 352-9, 2002.

Holyoake TL, Jiang X, Drummond MW, Eaves AC, & Eaves CJ. Elucidating critical mechanisms of deregulated stem cell turnover in the chronic phase of chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 16 (4): 549-58, 2002.

Jiang X, Ng E, Yip C, Eisterer W, Chalandon Y, Stuible M, Eaves A, & Eaves CJ. Primitive interleukin 3 null hematopoietic cells transduced with BCR-ABL show accelerated loss after culture of factor-independence in vitro and leukemogenic activity in vivo. Blood 100 (10): 3731-40, 2002.

Jiang X, Hanna Z, Kaouass M, Girard L, & Jolicoeur P. Ahi-1, a novel gene encoding a modular protein with WD40-repeat and SH3 domains, is targeted by the Ahi-1 and Mis-2 provirus integrations. J Virol 76 (18): 9046-59, 2002.

Holyoake TL, Jiang X, Jorgensen HG, Graham S, Alcorn MJ, Laird C, Eaves AC, & Eaves CJ. Primitive quiescent leukemic cells from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia spontaneously initiate factor-independent growth in vitro in association with up-regulation of expression of interleukin-3. Blood 97 (3): 720-8, 2001.

Jiang X, Fujisaki T, Nicolini F, Berger M, Holyoake T, Eisterer W, Eaves C, & Eaves A. Autonomous multi-lineage differentiation in vitro  of primitive CD34+ cells from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 14 (6): 1112-21, 2000.

Holyoake T, Jiang X, Eaves C, & Eaves A. Isolation of a highly quiescent subpopulation of primitive leukemic cells in chronic myeloid leukemia. Blood 94 (6): 2056-64, 1999.

Jiang X, Lopez A, Holyoake T, Eaves A, & Eaves C. Autocrine production and action of IL-3 and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in chronic myeloid leukemia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96 (22): 12804-9, 1999.