About Neal Lue
I am a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine. My lab studies telomere regulation and telomere maintenance in fungal models and in human cancers. Currently the two main projects in the lab are: (1) to decipher the physical and functional interactions between telomere proteins and DNA repair factors in Ustilago maydis (a fungal model); and (2) to characterize the functions of telomeres in neuroblastoma malignancy.
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Telomere maintenance and tumor cell differentiation have been separately investigated in neuroblastoma malignancy. Their mechanistic connection is unclear. We establish a tight and reciprocal causal relationship between the telomere and differentiation programs of high-risk neuroblastoma.