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Su Deng

Assistant Professor
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Biography

Dr. Su Deng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine. She is a cancer biologist whose research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of therapy resistance in advanced prostate cancer and developing strategies to overcome it.

Dr. Su Deng received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Weill Cornell Medicine and conducted her doctoral research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She completed her postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2024 and subsequently joined Yale School of Medicine as a tenure-track faculty member. Her research program focuses on dissecting the molecular mechanisms of therapy resistance in advanced prostate cancer. The Deng Lab integrates functional genomics, organoid engineering, multi-omics profiling, and translational model systems to uncover new therapeutic strategies.

Dr. Su Deng's work has been recognized with major awards, including the National Cancer Institute K22 Career Development Award.


Last Updated on October 02, 2025.

Appointments

  • Urology

    Assistant Professor
    Primary

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Instructor
UT Southwestern Medical Center (2024)
Research Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2018)
PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine, Biomedical Sciences (2016)
BS
Peking University , Biotechnology (2007)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Su Deng's published research.

Publications

2025

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

Activities

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    Catch Me If You Can: How Prostate Cancer Escape Therapy

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    The Jailbreak Strategy: How Prostate Cancer Cells Evade Therapies

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    Ectopic JAK/STAT Activation Enables the Transition to a Stem-like and Multi-lineage State Conferring AR-targeted Therapy Resistance

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    Ectopic JAK/STAT Activation Enables the Transition to a Stem-like and Multi-lineage State Conferring AR-targeted Therapy Resistance

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    Ectopic JAK/STAT Activation Enables the Transition to a Stem-like and Multi-lineage State Conferring AR-targeted Therapy Resistance