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Dr. Greg Wang is a faculty member of Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology (adjunct), and  Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical School.  He has enormous passion both for scientific discovery and for addressing critical health needs we face. His active research programs cover the fundamental principles of chromatin biology and gene regulation, pathogenesis notably cancer, and therapeutics. He also develops high interest in studying how host tames virus via epigenetic mechanisms.
    Dr. Wang holds a James B. Duke Distinguished Professorship in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and received a set of recognitions, including a Young Investigator Award of American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2021), the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (2019; UNC-CH) and the Yang Family Biomedical Scholar (2020), several awards of private foundations such as American Cancer Society Scholar (2016) and Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar (2018), amongst others (see CV below). Before joining UNC (2012-23) and Duke (2023-present) as a faculty member, he had completed a PHD study at UCSD and a postdoctoral training with Dr. C David Allis at Rockefeller University (2007-2011).

Greg Wang - Principal Investigator
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
PhD: University of California, San Diego, USA; Postdoc at: Rockefeller University (with Dave Allis)
Curriculum Vitae
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MD/PHD Student 

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Starting date: March 01 2024

Major Student Publications:

Cancer Res (2026)

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Benjamin K Lau

BS: Swarthmore College

MD/PHD Student (Co 2023; UNC-CH)

Elena Haarer

BS: U-Conn

MD/PHD Student (Duke)

Starting date: Jan 15 2026

Major Student Publications:

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Post-Doc Associate

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Arum Kim

PhD: Korea University, South Korea

Starting date: July 01 2019*

Major Post-Doc Publications:

BBA Gen Reg Mech (2021)

PNAS (2022)

Trends in Cancer (2023)

Nature Cell Biol (2026 accepted)

*Supported by NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, and a Forbeck Scholarship (class of 2023)

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Chenxi Xu

PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Starting date: June 6 2019

Major Post-Doc Publications:

Nucleic Acid Res (2021)

Cell Chem Biol. (2021)

J Med Chem (2022)

Trends in Cancer (2023)

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Starting date: April 21 2019 as PHD 

student; 2023 as postdoc 

Major Publications:

Nucleic Acid Res (2021);

Nat Communications (2020);

Trends in Genetics (2021)

Nat Communications (2022)

Major PHD Publications: 

Nat Communications (2024 and 2024)

Mol Cell (2025)

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Damu Wu

PhD: Peiking University (2024)

Starting date: Jan 01 2024

Major Post-Doc Publications:

MedScience (2026)

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Computational Specialist

Yiran Guo 

PhD: UNC-CH

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Post-Doc Associate

Haiqing Zhong

PhD (2024): Chinese Academy of Sciences

Starting date: Jan 01 2024

Major Post-Doc Publications:

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Computational biologist

Bo (Bryant) Pan

PhD:

Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China

Administrative Support

Grants Administrative Assistant 

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Amy Zhang

Undergrad Student Researcher

Lab Alumni

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Andrew Burton, BS (UNC) 

Now: Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree (D.D.S. 2017) dentistry practitioner in Greensboro, NC

Trevor Parton, BS (UNC) 

Now: UNC School of Medicine MD 2018 - 2022; Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine

Quinta Fernandes, BS (UNC) 

Now: Graduated with B.S. in Biology; UNC SOM MD graduated (2020-2024)

Walker Blanchard, BS (NC State Univ) 

Now: C.S. Grad Student at NCSU

Alex Chen, BS (UNC) 

Now: B.S. Chemistry (2020) UNC; Research technician, Duke Univ. Mol. Physiology Institute (MPI)

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Bowen Xu, BS (Fudan) MS (UNC)

Now: Senior Statistical Programmer, Bristol Myers Squibb Inc.

Doan On, BS (UVa) MS (UNC)

MS in biochem, UNC

now - PHD student at Virginia Commonwealth Univ

Jie Li, MS (CAS) PHD (UNC completed in 2021);

now -postdoc at Cornell Medical School (Dr. Ari Melnick's lab)

Malika Sekhri MS (Campbell Univ.;) now - PhD student in Pathology at University of Oklahoma

Peter D.L. Chen PHD (ECU) now  Sr. Director of Business Development , Innostar (was Director of BD @ Vazyme)

Rui Lu,  PHD Now: Associate Prof. (tenured) University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Cancer Center

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David Allison,PHD (UVa)

Now: CSO, Triangle Biotechnology Inc.

david.allison@trianglebio.com

Zhihong Ren, MD (Fudan)

Now: Fellow in Hematological Malignancies, Johns Hopkins University

Heather Hoke, PHD (MIT)

Now: Scientist at N-of-One (part of Qiagen Inc.)

Yulong Li, PHD (Duke)

Now: Bioinformatics Specialist at Duke

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Huitao Fan, PHD (U Bonn) Now: Professor & Deputy Director, NHC Key Laboratory of Cell Transplantation, Harbin Medical University, China; 

 huitaofan@hrbmu.edu.cn

Hidetaka Uryu, MD, PHD (Kyushu University)

now- Data Scientist, U Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Shuai Zhao PhD (Tsinghua University) now- Assistant Prof., Tsinghua University

zs116108141@163.com

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Joshua M Corbin PhD (University of Oklahoma) now- Labcorp Inc 

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Jeong (John) Hyun Ahn, PHD (Emory); was Assistant Prof., Seoul National Univ. ; now CSO PROTEINA, a South Korean publicly traded biotech company

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Jun Wang, PHD (Chinese Academy of Sciences); now- Assistant Prof. & PI, Institute of Modern Biology, Nanjing Univ. China wangj113@nju.edu.cn

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John Albright UNC BS major in Biol. and Chem; minor in data Science) / Science and Math Achievement and Resourcefulness Track (SMART) 

Yao Yu PhD (CAS)

now- Assistant Prof., Nanjing Normal University

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Dongxu Li, PHD (Peking Univ); now- Research Assistant Prof. Chinese Academy of Sciences; Polyseq Biotech Inc

dongxuli1106@gmail.com

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Yubin Chen - Rotation PHD Student, Duke MCB

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Yechan Moon- Rotation PHD Student, Duke CMB

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Yiran Guo

PhD (2023), Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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