Jianfu Chen

Professor of Biomedical Sciences

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Research Funding

  • Broader Evaluation of TMD Treatment Efficacy and Response (BETTER TMD)
    NIH · U01DE036113 · Sep 11, 2025 – Jun 30, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Multiplex meningeal lymphatic activation for Alzheimer?s disease
    NIH · R21AG089268 · Aug 15, 2024 – May 31, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Mapping temporomandibular joint (TMJ) degeneration and pain
    NIH · R01DE033511 · Jul 1, 2024 – Apr 30, 2029 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • MSC implantation as a treatment for developmental brain defects in craniosynostosis
    NIH · R01NS136377 · Jun 1, 2024 – May 31, 2029 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Brain lymphatic activation for craniosynostosis and Alzheimer?s disease
    NIH · RF1NS137467 · Jun 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Center for TMD IMPACT
    NIH · R34DE033572 · Sep 19, 2023 – Sep 18, 2024 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
  • Mechanisms and rescue of craniosynostosis associated with gene-environment interaction
    NIH · R01DE030901 · Jul 1, 2021 – Apr 30, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Mechanisms regulating neural progenitor expansion in the developing brain
    NIH · R01NS097231 · Sep 1, 2016 – Aug 31, 2021 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Genetic analysis of a microRNA pathway regulating neural tube closure
    NIH · R01NS096176 · Apr 1, 2016 – Jan 31, 2021 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Wdr62 in neural development and malformations of cortical development disease
    NIH · R00HD073269 · Aug 1, 2012 – Dec 31, 2017 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Wdr62 in neural development and malformations of cortical development disease
    NIH · K99HD073269 · Aug 1, 2012 – Jul 31, 2014 · Role: Principal Investigator

Publications

  • MicroRNA-208a is a regulator of cardiac hypertrophy and conduction in mice. J Clin Invest. 2009 Sep; 119(9):2772-86.. View in PubMed
  • microRNAs and muscle disorders. J Cell Sci. 2009 Jan 01; 122(Pt 1):13-20.. View in PubMed
  • Myocardin marks the earliest cardiac gene expression and plays an important role in heart development. Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2008 Oct; 291(10):1200-11.. View in PubMed
  • Targeted deletion of Dicer in the heart leads to dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 12; 105(6):2111-6.. View in PubMed
  • Muscling through the microRNA world. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2008 Feb; 233(2):131-8.. View in PubMed
  • Expression of microRNAs is dynamically regulated during cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2007 Jun; 42(6):1137-41.. View in PubMed
  • MicroRNAs in skeletal and cardiac muscle development. DNA Cell Biol. 2007 Apr; 26(4):219-25.. View in PubMed
  • The role of microRNA-1 and microRNA-133 in skeletal muscle proliferation and differentiation. Nat Genet. 2006 Feb; 38(2):228-33.. View in PubMed
  • The HopPtoF locus of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 encodes a type III chaperone and a cognate effector. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2004 May; 17(5):447-55.. View in PubMed