{"id":6424,"date":"2025-09-09T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:30:51","slug":"mentor-spotlight-hui-feng-md-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medstudentresearch\/2025\/09\/09\/mentor-spotlight-hui-feng-md-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentor Spotlight: Hui Feng, MD, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dr. Hui Feng, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biophysics<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Hui Feng<\/a> received her medical school training in Peking University, PhD training in Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia, and Postdoctoral training in Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In 2011, Dr. Feng started her independent research program in the Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, Boston University Medical Campus. The research in her lab seeks to elucidate tumor-promoting mechanisms and identify therapeutic strategies to combat aggressive or metastatic cancers, through combined analyses of human cells (e.g., primary patient samples) and zebrafish models of cancer.<\/p>\n

On<\/strong> mentorship:<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong>Dr. Feng feels proud and privileged to mentor such bright and driven students. It brings her deep satisfaction to help them formulate scientific hypothesis, perform experiments, analyze data, and write manuscripts. She believes it’s important to pursue your passion and to never hesitate to reach out simply you do not feel that you have enough time. Where there is a will, there is a way!<\/p>\n

Dr. Feng has mentored seven students with manuscripts, both published and in preparation, through various research projects including “The Role of S1P1 in Breast Cancer Pathogenesis,” “Resistant mechanisms to TCA-cycle Targeting in T-cell Leukemia” to “Targeting Cancer by Germ Cell of Origin: an application in Head and Neck Cancer” from 2017 to 2024. Here’s a list of some of her mentees and their current positions<\/p>\n