{"id":27469,"date":"2026-02-04T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:22:56","slug":"congratulations-to-our-new-phd-yue-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/congratulations-to-our-new-phd-yue-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our new PhD, Yue Wang!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dr. Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, &#8220;Decoding Cancer Biology Using Single-Cell Multiomics&#8221; under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brunk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13862\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 260px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250.jpg\" alt=\"Yue Wang, PhD\" width=\"250\" height=\"332\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Yue Wang, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41127930\/\">AI-Driven Variant Annotation for Precision Oncology in Breast Cancer.<\/a> Shukla K, <b>Wang Y<\/b>, Spanheimer PM, Brunk E. Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Oct;18(10):e70350. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cts.70350\">doi: 10.1111\/cts.70350.<\/a> PMID: 41127930. <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12547363\/\">PMC12547363.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40027670\/\">A Multimodal Framework to Uncover Drug-Responsive Subpopulations in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.<\/a> <b>Wang Y<\/b>, Haase S, Whitman A, Beltran A, Spanheimer PM, Brunk E. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Feb 19:2025.02.14.638274. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2025.02.14.638274\">doi: 10.1101\/2025.02.14.638274.<\/a> PMID: 40027670. <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11870422\/\">PMC11870422.<\/a> Preprint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39963364\/\" data-outlook-id=\"e2844223-093f-406f-99bb-904da990e474\">Leveraging AI to automate detection and quantification of extrachromosomal DNA to decode drug responses.<\/a> Goble K, Mehta A, Guilbaud D, Fessler J, Chen J, Nenad W, Ford CG, Cope O, Cheng D, Dennis W, Gurumurthy N, <b>Wang Y<\/b>, Shukla K, Brunk E. Front Pharmacol. 2025 Feb 3;15:1516621. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fphar.2024.1516621\">doi: 10.3389\/fphar.2024.1516621.<\/a> eCollection 2024. PMID: 39963364. <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11830698\/\">PMC11830698.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39091515\/\" data-outlook-id=\"7b0bc78b-1771-4473-8abb-b63585204b42\">CytoCellDB: a comprehensive resource for exploring extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cell lines.<\/a> Fessler J, Ting S, Yi H, Haase S, Chen J, Gulec S, <b>Wang Y<\/b>, Smyers N, Goble K, Cannon D, Mehta A, Ford C, Brunk E. NAR Cancer. 2024 Aug 1;6(3):zcae035. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/narcan\/zcae035\">doi: 10.1093\/narcan\/zcae035.<\/a> eCollection 2024 Sep. PMID: 39091515. <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11292414\/\">PMC11292414.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37569851\/\" data-outlook-id=\"72269cba-69a0-4c53-964a-4f53b6548fb5\">Advances in the Management of Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.<\/a> Bhardwaj PV, <b>Wang Y<\/b>, Brunk E, Spanheimer PM, Abdou YG. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Aug 5;24(15):12478. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijms241512478\">doi: 10.3390\/ijms241512478.<\/a> PMID: 37569851. <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10419523\/\">PMC10419523<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We wish you all the best, Yue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, &#8220;Decoding Cancer Biology Using Single-Cell Multiomics&#8221; under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":27477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-student-postdoc-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250sq.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250sq.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250sq.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250sq.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Yue-Wang-CR4-ADJ3-250sq-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Yue Wang, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Student &amp; Postdoc News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/student-postdoc-news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27644,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions\/27644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}