The award, which recognizes the research achievements of young tenured faculty, is made possible through a generous donation from Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang with additional financial support from Mr. To Hing Wu. This is the fourth annual class of Yang Family Biomedical Scholars, and the recipients are Chad Pecot, Li Qian, Gregory Scherrer, Greg Wang.

Event flier for the Yang Family Biomedical Scholars honoring the 2019-20 scholars Dr. Chad Pecot, Dr. Li Qian, Dr. Gregory Scherrer and Dr. Greg Wang. The event will be held on February 14, 2020 at 2:30pm in 1131 Bioinformatics Buildingat UNC Chapel Hill. Reception to follow.

Dear department, One of our own, Greg Wang, received the Yang Family Biomedical Scholar award. Please mark your calendars for February 14 at 2:30 in Bioinformatics for these presentations to help support Greg and these other outstanding faculty. Leslie Parise — Please mark your calendars and encourage your faculty to attend the 2019 Yang Family …

Greg Wang, PhD, has been honored as one of four recipients of this year’s Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

photo of two people Li Qian, PhD; Greg Wang, PhD

The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four associate professors who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise.

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The LLS grant will enable Wang lab to carry out unbiased oncogene target screening and shift towards new therapies of hematological malignancies.

photo of image2 2018 H. Shelton Earp, MD, and G. Greg Wang, PhD,

In the journal Molecular Cell, researchers led by G. Greg Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and H. Shelton Earp, MD, describe the role of a protein variant called androgen receptor variant 7 (AR-V7), which is an alternative form of the androgen receptor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and treatment.

Congratulations to Greg Wang and Qi Zhang, associate professors of biochemistry and biophysics who received tenure as a UNC faculty effective June 1, 2018.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has awarded Biochemistry and Biophysics Associate Professor G. Greg Wang, PhD, a five year, $550,000 Career Development Program Scholar Grant to support his research to decipher and target acute myeloid leukemia cell dependency and epigenetic mutations.

In the journal Nature, Greg Wang, PhD, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Cell biology Program, and colleagues reported findings about the structure and function of the DNMT3A enzyme complex, which helps control gene expression.

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UNC School of Medicine Celebrates 2019-20 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

2019 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Lectures

Wang honored as one of four recipients of Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement

Wang, Qian honored with 2019 Hettleman Prizes

Greg Wang publication in Blood “PHF19 promotes multiple myeloma tumorigenicity through PRC2 activation”

G. Greg Wang received a Career Development Program grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Insights about prostate cancer resistance could lead to treatment strategies

Greg Wang and Qi Zhang become associate professors with tenure

LLS awards Wang Career Development Program Scholar Grant

Researchers define structure, function of enzyme key to blood cancers