ZHANG Yonglong  

  • Doctoral Supervisor, Associate Professor
  • Department: Laboratory Medicine
  • Research Area: Oncology
  • Research Interests: Cancer Metabolism and Immunity 
  • Contact: yonglz@sjtu.edu.cn
  • PhD from Fudan University, 2016
  • MPH from Southwest University, 2009
  • Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital
  • Member of the Society of Tumor Microenvironment, Chinese Anti-Cancer Association; STMC
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  2. Sun Y, Zhang Y, Duan J, Qiao K, Yan Guoquan Xue J, Wang J, Zhan M, Li Q, Wang H, Zhang Y. Cyclin K Condensates Bridge CDK12 to Phosphorylate and Drive Oncogenic YAP Activation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Science Advances, 2025 (Accepted)
  3. Sun Y, Chen Y, Duan J, Xue J, Huang W, Di J, Zhang Y. Therapeutic Targeting of the PRMT6/FOXK1 Axis Restores Lipid Homeostasis and Ameliorates Hepatic Steatosis and Steatohepatitis in Mice, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2025 (In press) 
  4. Duan J, Chen T, Li Q, Zhang Y, Lu T, Xue J, Sun Y, Gao L, Zhang Y. Protein arginine methyltransferase 6 enhances immune checkpoint blockade efficacy via the STING pathway in MMR-proficient colorectal cancer. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 2025 Mar 13;13(3):e010639. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2024-010639.
  5. Liu Y, Wang F, Yan G, Tong Y, Guo W, Li S, Qian Y, Li Q, Shu Y, Zhang L, Zhang Y*, Xia Q*. CPT1A loss disrupts BCAA metabolism to confer therapeutic vulnerability in TP53-mutated liver cancer. Cancer Letters. 2024 Jul 28;595:217006. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2024.217006.
  6. Yu Tong, Fan Wang, Songling Li, Wenyun Guo, Yifei Qian, Linfeng Li, Huifang Zhao, Helen Zhu, Zhang Y.*, Wei-Qiang Gao* and Yanfeng Liu*. Histone methyltransferase KMT5C drives tumor progression and dictates PARP inhibitor therapeutic response. Hepatology. 2024 Jul 1;80(1):38-54. doi: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000000559.
  7.  Chen, T, Duan, J., Wang, F., Yuan, Z., Xue, J., Lu,T., Huang,T., Liu, Y*., Zhang, Y*.  Hippocalcin-Like 1 Blunts Liver Lipid Metabolism to Suppress Tumorigenesis Via Directly Targeting RUVBL1-mTOR Signaling. Theranostics, 2022; doi:10.7150/thno.75936;
  8. Chen, T, Duan, J., Wang, F., Yuan, Z., Xue, J., Lu,T., Huang,T., Liu, Y*., Zhang, Y*. (2022). GSMT3 Deficiency Regulates DNA Mismatch Repair to Promote Gastric Tumorigenesis via CAND1/NRF2-KEAP1 Signaling. Cancer Letters, 2022;538:215692.
  9. Wang, Y., Luo. M., Li, L., Wang, F., Liu, L., Xie, Y*., Zhang,Y*., Gao, W*., Liu, Y*. (2022). AMPK induces degradation of the transcriptional repressor PROX1 impairing branched amino acid metabolism and tumorigenesis. Nature Communications. 2022 Nov 24;13(1):7215.
  10. He, L Yuan, L. Yu, W., Sun, Y., Jiang, D., Wang, X., Feng, X., Wang, Z., Xu, J., Yang, R., Zhang, W., Feng, H., Chen, H., Zeng,Y., Hui, L., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y.*,Zhang, L*. (2020). A Regulation Loop between YAP and NR4A1 Balances Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis. Cell Reports, 2020;33:108284.. (*co-corresponding author)
  11. Zhang, Y. #*, Wang H. #, Chen, T. #, Wang, HL., Liang XW., Zhang YC., Duan, JL., ... & Wang, J*. (2021). C24-Ceramide Drives Gallbladder Cancer Progression through Directly Targeting PIP4K2C to Facilitate mTOR Signaling Activation. Hepatology, 2021, 73(2):692-712.7.  
     
  • 01/01/2025-12/31/2028
    National Natural Science Foundation of China , ¥490000, 82472802
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • 01/12/2023-12/31/2028
    National Key Research and Development Project, ¥790000, 2023YFA1800803
    Role: Participant