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Xiaowei Wang, PhD
Translational Oncology Research Program
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicince
College of Medicine
Email: zilai@uic.edu
Xiaowei Wang, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacology and Bioengineering in the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC. The main research interests of the Wang Lab include: computational and experimental identification of microRNA (miRNA) targets; development of bioinformatics tools for miRNA and gene expression research; identification of miRNA-related biomarkers for human cancers; functional characterization of miRNA in cancer development and progression; and development of miRNA therapeutics for human cancers. MiRNAs are a family of small non-coding RNAs, and each miRNA can regulate the expression of hundreds of gene targets. By broadly controlling the functions of thousands of genes, miRNAs play important regulatory roles in almost all known molecular pathways.
Education
- PhD, Tufts University
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Research Focus
- Translational Oncology
- Micrornas
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- CRISPR
- Single Cell Sequencing
- Cancer Biomarker