Pingching Hsu, PhD

Research Program: Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor Campus: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College: College of Public Health Department: Environmental & Occupational Health

Cancer Research Interest

• Disease Site Focus: Breast
• Research Focus Area: Health Disparities, Prevention, Treatment, Informatics, Diagnosis/ Prognosis
• Type of Research: Population Sciences

Contact Information

• Email Address: PHsu@uams.edu
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Active Grants

• US Department of Defense – W81XWH2110226
  “PCRP - menthol smoking and prostate cancer risk”
  Principal Investigator
  04/01/21 – 03/31/24
• NIH/Nat. Inst. of General Medical Sciences – 2P20GM109005
  “METABOLIC PHENOTYPES OF DOXORUBICIN-INDUCED CARDIOTOXICITY IN BREAST CANCER”
  Principal Investigator
  08/17/20 – 05/31/25
• UAMS Executive Breast Committee – FY20 ABCRP awards
  “Share Care of Breast Cancer Survivors-A Telemedicine in Rural Population Feasibility Study”
  Principal Investigator
  09/01/19 – 08/31/22

Publications

• Su LJ, Young SG, Collins J, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Geospatial Assessment of Pesticide Concentration in Ambient Air and Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Arkansas, 2013-2017. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2022 19(6). PMID: 35328946. PMCID: PMC8951132.
• Hsu PC, Maity S, Patel J, [et al.]. Metabolomics Signatures and Subsequent Maternal Health among Mothers with a Congenital Heart Defect-Affected Pregnancy. Metabolites. 2022 12(2). PMID: 35208175. PMCID: PMC8877777.
• Bauer MA, Todorova VK, Stone A, [et al., including Hsu PL]. Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Signatures Predict the Early Asymptomatic Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer. Cancers. 2021 13(24). PMID: 34944912. PMCID: PMC8699582.
• Matich EK, Su J, Laryea JA, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Association between pesticide exposure and colorectal cancer risk and incidence: A systematic review. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety. 2021 219:112327. PMID: 34029839.
• Evans AM, O'Donovan C, Playdon M, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Dissemination and analysis of the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) practices of LC-MS based untargeted metabolomics practitioners. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society. 2020 16(10):113. PMID: 33044703. PMCID: PMC7641040.
• Hernandez Puente CV, Hsu PC, Rogers LJ, [et al.]. Association of DNA-Methylation Profiles With Immune Responses Elicited in Breast Cancer Patients Immunized With a Carbohydrate-Mimicking Peptide: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in oncology. 2020 10:879. PMID: 32582547. PMCID: PMC7290046.
• Hsu PC, Kadlubar SA, Siegel ER, [et al.]. Genome-wide DNA methylation signatures to predict pathologic complete response from combined neoadjuvant chemotherapy with bevacizumab in breast cancer. PloS one. 2020 15(4):e0230248. PMID: 32298288. PMCID: PMC7162481.
• Todorova VK, Hsu PC, Wei JY, [et al.]. Biomarkers of inflammation, hypercoagulability and endothelial injury predict early asymptomatic doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients. American journal of cancer research. 2020 10(9):2933-2945. PMID: 33042627. PMCID: PMC7539772.
• Moerman-Herzog AM, Acheampong DA, Brooks AG, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Transcriptome analysis of Sézary syndrome and lymphocytic-variant hypereosinophilic syndrome T cells reveals common and divergent genes. Oncotarget. 2019 10(49):5052-5069. PMID: 31489115. PMCID: PMC6707948.
• Hsu P, Kadlubar SA, Su LJ, [et al.]. County poverty levels influence genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in African American and European American women. Translational Cancer Research. 2019 8(2):1-10.
• Hsu PC, Kadlubar S, Su LJ, [et al.]. County poverty levels influence genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in African American and European American women. Translational cancer research. 2019 8(2):683-692. PMID: 35116801. PMCID: PMC8797389.
• Beger RD, Dunn WB, Bandukwala A, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Towards quality assurance and quality control in untargeted metabolomics studies. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society. 2019 15(1):4. PMID: 30830465. PMCID: PMC6443086.
• Hsu PC, Lan RS, Brasky TM, [et al.]. Metabolomic profiles of current cigarette smokers. Molecular carcinogenesis. 2017 56(2):594-606. PMID: 27341184. PMCID: PMC5646689.
• Hsu PC, Lan RS, Brasky TM, [et al.]. Menthol Smokers: Metabolomic Profiling and Smoking Behavior. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2017 26(1):51-60. PMID: 27628308. PMCID: PMC5386404.
• Weng DY, Chen J, Taslim C, [et al., including Hsu PC]. Persistent alterations of gene expression profiling of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells from smokers. Molecular carcinogenesis. 2016 55(10):1424-37. PMID: 26294040. PMCID: PMC4860148.