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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.  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

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)

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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)

J Med Chem (2022)

Trends in Cancer (2023)

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Post-Doc Associate

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Yiran Guo

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

Starting date: April 21 2019 as PHD 

student; Major PHD 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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Post-Doc Associate

Yao Yu*

PhD: Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Starting date: July 18 2022

Major Post-Doc Publications:

Science Ad (under revision)

*Supported by AACR postdoc fellowship

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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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Post-Doc Associate

Damu Wu

PhD: Peiking University (2024)

Starting date: Jan 01 2024

Major Post-Doc Publications:

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Computational Specialist

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Computational biologist

Bo (Bryant) Pan

PhD:

Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China

MD/PHD Student (Co 2023)

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Benjamin K Lau

BS: Swarthmore College

Undergrad Student Researcher

Administrative Support

Grants Administrative Assistant 

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Amy Zhang

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

ruilu1@uabmc.edu

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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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

wangj113@nju.edu.cn

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

dongxuli1106@gmail.com

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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) 

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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 (full time lab technologist)/ part-time instructor, Durham Technical Community College 

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