Jiangang "Jason" Liao, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile

Jiangang "Jason" Liao, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Scientific Program:Next-Generation Therapies
Research Interests
- Neoplasms
- Therapeutics
- Tobacco Products
- Smokers
- Nicotine
- Biomarkers
- Genes
- Breast Neoplasms
- Pancreatic Neoplasms
- Survival
- Breast
- Child
Clinical Trials
Micro/nano technology for extracellular vesicle isolation and towards non-invasive pancreatic cancer diagnosis
Recent Publications
2023
Morales-Ghinaglia, N, Larsen, M, He, F, Calhoun, SL, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, J, Liao, D, Bixler, EO & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2023, 'Circadian Misalignment Impacts the Association of Visceral Adiposity with Elevated Blood Pressure in Adolescents', Hypertension, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 861-871. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.20398
Hayman, IR, Temple, RM, Burgess, CK, Ferguson, M, Liao, J, Meyers, C & Sample, CE 2023, 'New insight into Epstein-Barr virus infection using models of stratified epithelium', PLoS pathogens, vol. 19, no. 1, e1011040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011040
2022
LeBlanc, FR, Hasanali, ZS, Stuart, A, Shimko, S, Sharma, K, Leshchenko, VV, Parekh, S, Fu, H, Zhang, Y, Martin, MM, Kester, M, Fox, T, Liao, J, Loughran, TP, Evans, J, Pu, JJ, Spurgeon, SE, Aladjem, MI & Epner, EM 2022, 'Combined epigenetic and immunotherapy for blastic and classical mantle cell lymphoma', Oncotarget, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 986-1002. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28258
Lin, W, Hobkirk, AL, Zhu, J, Krebs, NM, Hayes, JE, Richie, JP, Liao, J, Horn, K, Foulds, J & Muscat, JE 2022, 'Effect of menthol on nicotine reduction: Pooled results from two double-blind randomized controlled trials', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 189, pp. 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2022.08.019
Sinha, I, Goel, R, Bitzer, ZT, Trushin, N, Liao, J & Sinha, R 2022, 'Evaluating electronic cigarette cytotoxicity and inflammatory responses in vitro', Tobacco Induced Diseases, vol. 20, no. 5, 45. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/147200
Midya, V, Liao, J, Gennings, C, Colicino, E, Teitelbaum, SL, Wright, RO & Valvi, D 2022, 'Quantifying the Effect Size of Exposure-Outcome Association Using δ-Score: Application to Environmental Chemical Mixture Studies', Symmetry, vol. 14, no. 10, 1962. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14101962
Foulds, J, Veldheer, S, Pachas, G, Hrabovsky, S, Hameed, A, Allen, SI, Cather, C, Azzouz, N, Yingst, J, Hammett, E, Modesto, J, Krebs, NM, Lester, C, Trushin, N, Reinhart, L, Wasserman, E, Zhu, J, Liao, J, Muscat, JE, Richie, JP & Evins, AE 2022, 'The effects of reduced nicotine content cigarettes on biomarkers of nicotine and toxicant exposure, smoking behavior and psychiatric symptoms in smokers with mood or anxiety disorders: A double-blind randomized trial', PloS one, vol. 17, no. 11 November, e0275522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275522
Fernandez-Mendoza, J, Lenker, KP, Calhoun, SL, Qureshi, M, Ricci, A, Bourchtein, E, He, F, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, J, Liao, D & Bixler, EO 2022, 'Trajectories of Insomnia Symptoms From Childhood Through Young Adulthood', Pediatrics, vol. 149, no. 3, e2021053616. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053616
2021
Krebs, NM, Zhu, J, Wasserman, E, Kuprewicz, R, Martinez, DJ, Veldheer, S, Livelsberger, C, Modesto, J, Reinhart, L, Trushin, N, Reilly, SM, Liao, J, Fazzi, A, Bascom, R, Richie, JP, Foulds, J, Horn, K & Muscat, JE 2021, 'Switching to Progressively Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Smokers with Low Socioeconomic Status: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 992-1001. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa247
Midya, V & Liao, J 2023, 'Systematic deviation in mean of log bayes factor: Implication and application', Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 3209-3218. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2021.1970768
Liao, J & Rohde, C 2022, 'Variance reduction in the inverse probability weighted estimators for the average treatment effect using the propensity score', Biometrics, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 660-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13454
2020
Liao, JG, Berg, A & McMurry, TL 2021, 'A Robustified Posterior for Bayesian Inference on a Large Number of Parallel Effects', American Statistician, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 145-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1701549
Liao, JG, Midya, V & Berg, A 2021, 'Connecting and Contrasting the Bayes Factor and a Modified ROPE Procedure for Testing Interval Null Hypotheses', American Statistician, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1701550
He, F, Dong, H, Fernandez-Mendoza, J, Bixler, EO, Liao, J & Liao, D 2020, 'Racial/ethnic disparity in habitual sleep is modified by caloric intake in adolescents', Sleep Medicine, vol. 76, pp. 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2020.10.001
2019
Allen, SI, Wasserman, E, Veldheer, S, Yingst, J, Hrabovsky, S, Liao, J, Krebs, NM, Horn, K, Reinhart, L, Modesto, J, Putt, K, Evins, AE, Muscat, JE, Richie, JP & Foulds, J 2019, 'Characteristics of Adult Cigarette Smokers Who "relight" and the Effects of Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Constituents', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1206-1212. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty138
McDonald, AC, Raman, JD, Shen, J, Liao, J, Pandya, B & Vira, MA 2019, 'Circulating microRNAs in plasma before and after radical prostatectomy', Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 814.e1-814.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urolonc.2019.07.001
Hrabovsky, SM, Midya, V, Lester, C, Veldheer, S, Yingst, JM, Allen, SI, Krebs, NM, Liao, J, Reinhart, L, Modesto, J, Evins, AE, Richie, JP, Muscat, JE, Horn, K & Foulds, J 2019, 'Effect of cigarette rod length on smokers switching to SPECTRUM cigarettes', American Journal of Health Behavior, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 380-392. https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.43.2.14
Barth, BM, Wang, W, Toran, PT, Fox, TE, Annageldiyev, C, Ondrasik, RM, Keasey, NR, Brown, TJ, Devine, VG, Sullivan, EC, Cote, AL, Papakotsi, V, Tan, SF, Shanmugavelandy, SS, Deering, TG, Needle, DB, Stern, ST, Zhu, J, Liao, J, Viny, AD, Feith, DJ, Levine, RL, Wang, HG, Loughran, TP, Sharma, A, Kester, M & Claxton, DF 2019, 'Sphingolipid metabolism determines the therapeutic efficacy of nanoliposomal ceramide in acute myeloid leukemia', Blood Advances, vol. 3, no. 17, pp. 2598-2603. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2018021295