Frances Feng, MD, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant professor

Recognitions

• 2022 USCAP Stowell-Orbison/Surgical Pathology/Autopsy Award Poster Session (Los Angeles, CA), USCAP (2022)
• 2020-2021 RISE Award, LSU-Shreveport, Department of Pathology (2021)
• 2020-2021 Distinguished Transfusion Medicine Award,, LSU-Shreveport, Department of Pathology (2021)
• CAPA Trainee Presentation Award, Third Place, CAPA (2021)
• Albert B. Smith Research Symposium, 3rd Place Award, LSU-Shreveport, Department of Pathology (2021)

Publications

• Feng FX, Birdsong GG, Wei J, Dababneh MN, Reid MD, Hoskins M, Wang Q. Retrospective analysis of HPV infection: Cotesting and HPV genotyping in cervical cancer screening within a large academic health care system. Cancer Cytopathol. 2025 Jan;133(1):e22916. PubMed PMID: 39498509
• Floyd D, Colbert JF, Feng F, Furgeson SB, Montford JR. Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease Worsen Outcomes in Experimental Sepsis. Kidney360. 2024 May 1;5(5):654-670. PubMed PMID: 38353663
• Gonzalez NM, Zou D, Zeng Z, Feng FX, Zhang X, Sannes C, Gu A, Zu Y, Chen W. Transient Anti-TCRß mAb Treatment Induces CD4( ) T Cell Exhaustion and Prolongs Survival in a Mouse Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Immunology. 2024 Dec 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39648274
• Feng FX, Farsi N, Dai M, Cuevas-Ocampo AK, Veillon DM, Cotelingam JD. Histiocytic Disorder Mimicking a Brain Tumor: A Report of 2 Rare Cases. Am J Case Rep. 2022 Aug 16;23:e935885. PubMed PMID: 35971309
• Chen S, Feng X, Chen X, Zhuang Z, Xiao J, Fu H, Klein JD, Wang XH, Hoover RS, Eaton DC, Cai H. 14-3-3?, a novel regulator of the large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channel. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2020 Jul 1;319(1):F52-F62. PubMed PMID: 32463725
• Feng X, Xu H, and Dela Cruz N. Mucosal Schwann Cell Hamartoma in sigmoid colon – A rare case report and review of literature.Human pathology: Case reports 19(2020) 200337
• Xu H, Feng X, Lockhart V, Cotelingam J and Shi M. Angiomyomatous Hamartoma: A rare case report and review of literature. Human pathology: Case reports 19 (2020) 200351
• Zhuang Z, Xiao J, Chen X, Hu X, Li R, Chen S, Feng X, Shen S, Ma HP, Zhuang J, Cai H. G protein pathway suppressor 2 enhanced the renal large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated potassium channel expression via inhibiting ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018 Sep 1;315(3):F503-F511. PubMed PMID: 29767559
• Wang D, Zhang Y, Han J, Pan S, Xu N, Feng X, Zhuang Z, Caroti C, Zhuang J, Hoover RS, Gu D, Zeng Q, Cai H. WNK3 Kinase Enhances the Sodium Chloride Cotransporter Expression via an ERK 1/2 Signaling Pathway. Nephron. 2016;133(4):287-95. PubMed PMID: 27467688
• Liu Y, Song X, Shi Y, Shi Z, Niu W, Feng X, Gu D, Bao HF, Ma HP, Eaton DC, Zhuang J, Cai H. WNK1 activates large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels through modulation of ERK1/2 signaling. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Apr;26(4):844-54. PubMed PMID: 25145935
• Feng X, Li Z, Du Y, Fu H, Klein JD, Cai H, Sands JM, Chen G. Downregulation of urea transporter UT-A1 activity by 14-3-3 protein. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2015 Jul 1;309(1):F71-8. PubMed PMID: 25995111
• Feng X, Zhang Y, Shao N, Wang Y, Zhuang Z, Wu P, Lee MJ, Liu Y, Wang X, Zhuang J, Delpire E, Gu D, Cai H. Aldosterone modulates thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter abundance via DUSP6-mediated ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2015 May 15;308(10):F1119-27. PubMed PMID: 25761881
• Lai L, Feng X, Liu D, Chen J, Zhang Y, Niu B, Gu Y, Cai H. Dietary salt modulates the sodium chloride cotransporter expression likely through an aldosterone-mediated WNK4-ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Pflugers Arch. 2012 Mar;463(3):477-85. PubMed PMID: 22200850
• Zhou B, Wang D, Feng X, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zhuang J, Zhang X, Chen G, Delpire E, Gu D, Cai H. WNK4 inhibits NCC protein expression through MAPK ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2012 Mar 1;302(5):F533-9. PubMed PMID: 22114204
• Feng X, Huang H, Yang Y, Fröhlich O, Klein JD, Sands JM, Chen G. Caveolin-1 directly interacts with UT-A1 urea transporter: the role of caveolae/lipid rafts in UT-A1 regulation at the cell membrane. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2009 Jun;296(6):F1514-20. PubMed PMID: 19369293

Professional Memberships

• USCAP, Member
• CAP, Member
• ASC, Member
• ASN, Member
• CAPA, Member

Practice Locations

Specialty Information

• Anatomic, Board Certification
• Cytopathology, Board Certification