Xiaowei Wang, PhD

Xiaowei Wang, PhD, is Program Director of the Cancer Bioinformatics Shared Resource (CBSR) at the University of Ilinois Cancer Center, which strives to bridge the gap between clinicians and basic researchers for collaborations on translational cancer research. He is also Professor of Pharmacology and Bioengineering in the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicince at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. 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.