GREG WANG LABORATORY
@ Duke University
Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Department of Pathology (adjunct)
Duke Cancer Institute
Dr. Greg Wang is a faculty member of Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology (adjunct) and Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University. 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.
At his independent faculty position, Dr. Wang has received the Young Investigator Award of American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2021), recognitions by schools including the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (2019) 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
Full Professor (Tenured)
PhD: University of California, San Diego, USA; Postdoc at: Rockefeller University (with David Allis)
Curriculum Vitae
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Post-Doc Associate
Shuai Zhao
PhD: Tsinghua University, China
Starting date: June 28 2019
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Nature Rev Cancer (2021)
Nature (2023)
Post-Doc Associate
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)
*Supported by NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, and a Forbeck Scholarship (class of 2023)
Post-Doc Associate
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)
Trends in Cancer (2023)
Post-Doc Associate
Yao Yu
PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Starting date: Aug 16 2022
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Post-Doc Associate
Yiran Guo
PhD (2023), Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Starting date: April 21 2019
Major PHD Publications:
Nucleic Acid Res (2021);
Nat Communications (2020);
Trends in Genetics (2021)
Nat Communications (2022);
Post-Doc Associate
Joshua Corbin
PhD: Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center (OUHSC)
Starting date: Nov 16 2022
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Computational Specialist
Computational biologist
Bo (Bryant) Pan
PhD:
Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China
MD/PHD Student (Co 2023)
Benjamin K Lau
BS: Swarthmore College
Undergrad Student Researcher
John Albright
BS major in Biol. and Chem; minor in data Science; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Administrative Support
Grants Administrative Assistant
Natasha Thornton
CONTACT #: 919.660.0777
Lab Alumni
Andrew Burton, BS (UNC)
Now: Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree (D.D.S.; completed in 2017)
Trevor Parton, BS (UNC)
Now : UNC School of Medicine MD 2018 - 2022
Quinta Fernandes, BS (UNC)
Now: Graduated with B.S. in Biology; UNC SOM (Co 2023)
Walker Blanchard, BS (NC State Univ)
Now: Clinical Research Coordinator at UNC
Alex Chen, BS (UNC)
Now: B.S. Chemistry (2020) UNC; Research technician, Duke Univ.
Bowen Xu, BS (Fudan) MS (UNC)
Now: Senior Statistical Programmer, 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 -Director of BD @ Vazyme
Rui Lu, PHD (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Now: Assistant Prof. /PI; University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Cancer Center
Zhihong Ren, MD (Fudan)
Now: Fellow in Hematological Malignancies, Johns Hopkins University
Heather Hoke, PHD (MIT)
Now: Scientist at N-of-One, Inc.
Yulong Li, PHD (Duke)
Now: Bioinformatics Specialist at Duke
Huitao Fan, PHD (U Bonn) Now: Professor & Deputy Director, NHC Key Laboratory of Cell Transplantation, Harbin Medical University, China;
Hidetaka Uryu, MD, PHD (Kyushu University)
now- Data Scientist, U Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jeong (John) Hyun Ahn, PHD (Emory); now now- Assistant Prof., Seoul National Univ. South Korea
Jun Wang, PHD (Chinese Academy of Sciences); now- Assistant Prof. & PI, Institute of Modern Biology, Nanjing Univ. China
Dongxu Li, PHD (Peking Univ); now- Research Assistant Prof. Chinese Academy of Sciences