Dr. Lan Wang | Biochemistry | Best Researcher Award
Principal Investigator at Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, China
Dr. Lan Wang is a distinguished researcher specializing in the pathogenesis of hematological malignancies and stem cell studies. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and completed her Ph.D. at the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. Wang held notable academic positions at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Miami before becoming a Principal Investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, SINH, CAS. Her research is dedicated to identifying disrupted genes in hematological disorders and developing therapeutic strategies. Dr. Wang has received numerous honors, including the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Fellowship, the Empire State Stem Cell Scholars Fellow to Faculty award, and the China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists. She holds several patents related to cancer therapies and serves as an editor for Frontiers in Biosciences. Her work significantly contributes to advancing the understanding and treatment of blood-related cancers.
Professional Profiles:
Education:
Dr. Lan Wang received a Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University between 1998 and 2002. Subsequently, from 2002 to 2007, Dr. Wang pursued a Ph.D. at the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Life Science, Chinese Academy of Science.
Professional Experience:
Dr. Lan Wang held several major academic appointments throughout her career. From 2008 to 2010, she served as a Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Following this, she was a Research Associate at the same institution from 2010 to 2012. She then became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, from 2013 to 2015. Since 2015, Dr. Wang has been a Principal Investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, SINH, CAS.
Research Interest :
Dr. Lan Wang’s research focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of hematological malignancies and stem cell studies. Specifically, Dr. Wang is interested in identifying the genes disrupted in these disorders and developing new therapeutic strategies for patients with these diseases. Blood cells are generated by hematopoietic stem cells, which are proposed to be the cell of origin in leukemia. Dr. Wang’s research aims to understand how the behavior of these stem cells goes awry when they become transformed. Cancer stem cells exhibit a loss of normal growth control mechanisms, leading to abnormal cell division, survival, and expansion. The development of hematological malignancies is commonly associated with aberrant transcriptional regulation, where genes are inappropriately turned on or off. In most cases, correcting these abnormalities would block the development or progression of hematological malignancies in patients.
Patents :
Dr. Lan Wang holds several patents in the field of therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment. The first patent, co-authored with Nimer SD, is titled “The Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia” with the application number SK2011-037-03, filed in 2011. The second patent, co-authored with Chen Z, Chen SJ, Zhou GB, Liu SC, and Liu P, involves the application of AS4S4/Indigo/Tanshinone IIA for cancer therapy, under the application number 200910051409.5. Another patent, co-authored with Chen SJ, Chen Z, Zhao WL, and Sun HD, covers the application of Eriocalyxin B in pharmacy, with the application number 200510110089.8. The fourth patent, involving Chen Z, Chen SJ, Zhao WL, and Liu YH, is for a medicine combination for the therapy of B-cell lymphoma, with the application number 2005101121147.0.
Awards and Honors:
Dr. Lan Wang has received numerous honors, certificates, and memberships in academic societies throughout her career. In 2005, she was recognized as an Excellent Student by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and received the “Chen Zhu and Chen Saijuan” Award for Outstanding Graduate Student from the Shanghai Institute of Hematology for 2005-2006. In 2009, she was awarded the Leukemia Lymphoma Society Fellowship. She received the American Society of Hematology meeting travel award in 2010 and was appointed as an Associate Faculty Member for the Faculty of 1000 Post-publication peer review in the same year. In 2011, she was honored with the Empire State Stem Cell Scholars Fellow to Faculty award. Dr. Wang became a member of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2013. From 2014 to 2015, she received several awards, including the Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research award, The Woman’s Cancer Association of the University of Miami award, and the Leukemia Research Foundation New Investigator award. In 2015, she was granted the Stanley J. Glaser Foundation Award and was a recipient of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts (Young Program). Additionally, she became an Editor of Frontiers in Biosciences. In 2016, Dr. Wang received the China National Funds for Excellent Young Scientists and the Excellent Overseas Returnees Award from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Quantile regression for analyzing heterogeneity in ultra-high dimension
Authors: L. Wang, Y. Wu, R. Li
Journal: Journal of the American Statistical Association
Volume: 107 (497)
Pages: 214-222
Citations: 329
Year: 2012
Quantile-adaptive model-free variable screening for high-dimensional heterogeneous data
Authors: X. He, L. Wang, H.G. Hong
Citations: 289
Year: 2013
Locally weighted censored quantile regression
Authors: H.J. Wang, L. Wang
Journal: Journal of the American Statistical Association
Volume: 104 (487)
Pages: 1117-1128
Citations: 262
Year: 2009
Penalized generalized estimating equations for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis
Authors: L. Wang, J. Zhou, A. Qu
Journal: Biometrics
Volume: 68 (2)
Pages: 353-360
Citations: 195
Year: 2012
Calibrating non-convex penalized regression in ultra-high dimension
Authors: L. Wang, Y. Kim, R. Li
Journal: Annals of Statistics
Volume: 41 (5)
Pages: 2505
Citations: 192
Year: 2013
Partially linear additive quantile regression in ultra-high dimension
Authors: B. Sherwood, L. Wang
Citations: 140
Year: 2016
A high-dimensional nonparametric multivariate test for mean vector
Authors: L. Wang, B. Peng, R. Li
Journal: Journal of the American Statistical Association
Volume: 110 (512)
Pages: 1658-1669
Citations: 140
Year: 2015
GEE analysis of clustered binary data with diverging number of covariates
Authors: L. Wang
Citations: 121
Year: 2011
An iterative coordinate descent algorithm for high-dimensional nonconvex penalized quantile regression
Authors: B. Peng, L. Wang
Journal: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
Volume: 24 (3)
Pages: 676-694
Citations: 96
Year: 2015
Weighted Wilcoxon-type smoothly clipped absolute deviation method
Authors: L. Wang, R. Li
Journal: Biometrics
Volume: 65 (2)
Pages: 564-571
Citations: 80
Year: 2009