Shizhen Emily Wang,
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology,
University of California, San Diego
S. Emily Wang, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. She first began her research career in the late 1990s as a virologist and obtained her doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nankai University, followed by post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University. Before joining UCSD in 2016, Dr. Wang was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Cancer Biology at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope. Dr. Wang is the recipient of a NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award and several R01 grants. She has also received several IDEA awards from the California Breast Cancer Research Program and an AACR-Breast Cancer Research Foundation translational award. Dr. Wang has more than 60 publications related to her research in cancer and viral oncology, including several recent publications related to extracellular miRNAs in Nature Cell Biology, Cancer Cell, and Cell Metabolism, etc. Her lab is currently exploring additional mechanisms through which cancer-derived extracellular miRNAs contribute to the multifaceted reprogramming of non-cancerous cells in the tumor microenvironment as well as novel therapeutic strategies targeting cancer-derived extracellular miRNAs for their function in cancer-host communication.
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