The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine would like to welcome our newest research faculty member, Jeremy Wang, PhD! Dr. Wang joins us as an Associate Professor.
Formerly a Research Assistant with UNC Genetics, Dr. Wang completed his undergraduate degree at Guilford College and then went on to complete his PhD in Computer Science at UNC. He completed his post-doctoral work with UNC Genetics and was a Basic Science Gastroenterology T32 Fellow at the UNC Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease.
Dr. Wang’s lab applies high-performance computational methods and novel high-throughput sequencing approaches to advance precision personalized medicine with a focus on molecular diagnostics in cancer and infectious diseases. It broadly aims to develop, validate, and implement nano-pore sequencing-based molecular diagnostic tools enabling comprehensive genomic characterization of pediatric and adult cancers.
His current work focuses on using low-cost nano-pore RNA- and DNA-sequencing to enable comprehensive molecular characterization of pediatric acute leukemias and solid tumors in low-resource settings where traditional diagnostic infrastructure is unavailable. Making a meaningful contribution to personalized medicine requires highly collaborative multidisciplinary science. As such, the lab works closely with clinical, translational, basic science, and computational collaborators at UNC and around the world.