1949 – 2006
by John Hay, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Yao-Qi Huang, MD
1949 - 2006
Dr. Huang was educated at the Shanghai Second Medical University and obtained his Doctorate of Medicine in 1977. He completed his residency at Zhong Shan Hospital, Shanghai, and, following a period of postgraduate training and research, he was appointed Zhong Shan’s Chief Resident.
Dr. Huang moved to the United States in 1986, where he became a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Bernard Poiesz in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the State University of New York at Syracuse, and was later appointed there as a research associate.
He developed an interest in Kaposi’s sarcoma and HHV-8, and moved to New York in 1992 to pursue this interest. He became an Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, working with Dr. Friedman-Kien in his laboratory in the Departments of Dermatology and Microbiology. He published 14 papers on the biology of HHV-8 and Kaposi's sarcoma, and was awarded an NIH-R01 grant in 1995.
In 1997, Dr. Huang moved to the Department of Hematology, and with Dr. Simon Karpatkin, explored the effects of thrombin on growth and apoptosis of tumor cells, and on tumor angiogenesis. More recently, he had been working with me in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, developing gene therapy applications related to tumor angiogenesis.
Dr. Huang's unabated enthusiasm for science was always in evidence. He had a continual supply of new and innovative ideas, and was most recently preparing to submit a grant to determine the role of traditional Chinese herbs in coagulation, angiogenesis, and cancer.
He was a wonderful colleague who we will miss greatly. He leaves a wife, Jan Li-Huang, and a son, Yili, who recently completed college at New York University.
