WANG LABORATORY
@ UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Dr. Greg Wang is a faculty member of Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Dept. of Pharmacology, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. 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 UNC 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, he 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
Dongxu Li
PhD: Peking University, China
Starting date: Jan 18 2018
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Science Trans Med (2021)
Cell rep (2022)
Oncogene (2022)
Post-Doc Associate
Jun Wang
PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Starting date: Feb 01 2018
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Nature Cell Biology (2022)
Int J Mol Sci (2020)
Nucleic Acid Res (2022)
Nature Genetics (2022)
Post-Doc Associate
Shuai Zhao
PhD: Tsinghua University, China
Starting date: June 28 2019
Major Post-Doc Publications:
Nature Rev Cancer (2021)
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)
*Supported by NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
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)
Post-Doc Associate
Yao Yu
PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Starting date: Aug 16 2022
Major Post-Doc Publications:
PHD Student
Yiran Guo
PhD Student, 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)
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
Weida Gong
PhD: UNC at Chapel Hill
Administrative Support
Administrative Assistant
Singleton, Jaleesa
Owens, Donna Cristi
Email: cowens99@email.unc.edu
Andrew Burton
Now: Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree (D.D.S.; 2017)
Trevor Parton
Now: UNC School of Medicine MD class of 2018-2022
Quinta Fernandes
Now: Graduated with B.S. in Biology; UNC Medicine
Walker Blanchard
Now: Clinical Research Coordinator at UNC
Alex Chen
Now: B.S. Chemistry (2020) UNC; Research technician, Duke Univ.
Bowen Xu
Now: Senior Statistical Programmer at Syneos Health
Doan On
MS in biochem, UNC; PHD at Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Jie Li
PHD in G&MB, UNC; postdoc at Cornell Medical School
Malika Sekhri
MS, Campbell Univ.; Research Associate in Translational Med.
Rui Lu
Now: Assistant Prof. University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Cancer center
David Allison
Senior Scientist at Triangle Biotechnology
Zhihong Ren
Research Fellow in Hematological Malignancies, Johns Hopkins University
Heather Hoke
Scientist at N-of-One, Inc.
Yulong Li
Bioinformatics Specialist at Duke
Huitao Fan
Now: Professor at Harbin Medical University, China
Hidetaka Uryu, MD, PHD
Bioinformatician specialist
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jeong (John) Hyun Ahn, PHD
Assistant Prof., Seoul National Univ. South Korea