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<\/p>\nThe Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine would like to welcome our\u00a0newest\u00a0research faculty\u00a0member, Jeremy Wang, PhD! Dr. Wang joins us\u00a0as\u00a0an Associate Professor.<\/p>\n
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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.\u00a0He 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.<\/p>\n
Dr. Wang\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"