30-04-2024
Dr. Quanhua MU will be appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology (ABCT), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from July 2024. Big Congrats to Prof. MU!
18-03-2024
Welcome Yimeng QIAO to join the lab as an RPG student!
18-03-2024
Welcome Dr. Ming YANG to join the lab as a Postdoc Fellow!
19-02-2024
Welcome Dr. Yanbing WANG to join the lab as a Research Assistant Professor!
05-12-2023
Congratulations to Dong and Yiyun! The paper "Noncoding mutations cause super-enhancer retargeting resulting in protein synthesis dysregulation during B cell lymphoma progression" has been published by Nature Genetics!
13-11-2023
Welcome Fufang QIU to join the lab as a Visiting Student!
13-11-2023
Welcome Dr. Yunqing LIU to join the lab as a Postdoc Fellow!
01-11-2023
Welcome Dr. Zheng WANG to join the lab as a Postdoc Fellow!
29-10-2023
Congratulations to Junyi and Zongchao! The manuscript "MGSA: a Multi-ethnic Germline-Somatic Association database to decipher multi-layered and interconnected genetic mutations in cancer" has been provisionally accepted for publication in Cancer Research.
29-10-2023
Congratulations to Zheng ZHAO and Zongchao! The paper "circRNADisease v2.0: an updated resource for high-quality experimentally supported circRNA-disease associations" has been published by Nucleic Acids Research.
05-10-2023
Congratulations to Quanhua and Ruichao! The pan-glioma evolution paper has been published by Science Translational Medicine.
04-09-2023
Welcome joint program students, Can NI (primary advisor: Prof. Qinglu ZENG) and Mengqi YANG (primary advisor: Prof. Kun SUN), for joining us.
30-08-2023
Congratulations to Yiyun CHEN, Zheng ZHAO and other lab members! Our study on Tumor-associated monocyte (TAMo) is now online. The study has revealed a functional myeloid cell in glioblastoma, TAMo, which specifically expresses EREG and AREG, promoting mesenchymal transformation through the FOSL2-EREG/AREG-EGFR axis.
15-08-2023
Welcome Minghao WANG, Qi AN and Jooran LEE to join the Wang lab as RPG students.
04-07-2023 
Congratulations to our newly established SIAT-HKUST Joint Laboratory of Cell Evolution and Digital Health, at HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, Futian, Shenzhen. More Photos
19-06-2023
Congratulations to Yingxi YANG who wins the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students in 2022-23.
29-05-2023
Congratulations to Dr Yingxi YANG. She has succesfully passed the PhD exam!
14-04-2023
Congratulate to Jooran LEE for being awarded the 2023/24 Asian Future Leaders Scholarship Program (AFLSP)!
03-12-2022
Welcome Dr Zheng ZHAO to join the lab as a Postdoc Fellow!
13-09-2022
Congratulate Quanhua MU for his promotion to Research Assistant Professor at CBE.
01-09-2022
Congratulations to Zhi HUANG and Yuyan RUAN, who won the RedBird PhD Award for new PhD sudents.
20-08-2022
Welcome Mengli YAN, Yuyan RUAN and Zhi HUANG, who join the Wang Lab as RPG students.
04-07-2022
Welcome Ruichao CHAI and Hui WANG, who join the Wang Lab as postdoc fellow.
01-06-2022
Congratulations to Yiyun CHEN, who will join Stanford University for postdoc study.
31-05-2022
Congratulations to Yingxi, who has been selected from a highly competitive pool of candidates to receive the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students in the 2021/22 Academic Year.
06-04-2022
Congratulations to Jiabao LI who won the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
21-02-2022
Congratulations! Wet lab open at Room 6201M (Zone J)!
02-2022
Congratulations to Yoonhee, joining the Columbia University, in the city of New York for her postdoc study.
14-01-2022
Welcome Mengli YAN, who joins the Wang Lab as a research assistant.
03-11-2021
Congratulations to Biaobin JIANG, Quanhua MU, and Fufang QIU! The MetaNet manuscript entitled "Machine learning of genomic features in organotropic metastases stratifies progression risk of primary tumors" has been officially accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Click here for details.
15-10-2021
Congratulations! The bAVM paper has been highlighted at the Cover of Volume 129, Issue 9 of Circulation Research on October 15, 2021. https://www.ahajournals.org/toc/res/129/9. Yoonhee Nam has been highlighted in the "Meet the First Authors" section of Circulation Research: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/RES.0000000000000515.
18-09-2021
Congratulations to Yoonhee, Biaobin, Qiuxia, Dong,
and Yingxi! The comprehensive multi-omics study of brain arteriovenous malformation (bAVM) has been published online as an original article
at Circulation Research. It has been a collaborative project with Prof. Yong Cao's team at Beijing Tiantan Hospital.
01-09-2021
Congratulations to Jihong TANG who won the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)!
01-09-2021
Welcome Jihong and Ruochen, who join the Wang Lab as RPG students.
16-08-2021
Welcome Junyi, who joins the Wang Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
06-07-2021
Congratulations to Yingxi, who has recieved the Chan Tak Kei & Wong Kwai Ying Bioengineering Student Research Award! The awards, presented annually, recognize students’ excellence in research during their studies in BIEN graduate program.
05-07-2021
Welcome Haixia, who joins the Wang Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
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Congratulations to Prof. Jiguang WANG. He has been promoted to Associate Professor and appointed as Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Life Science.
10-05-2021
Congratulations to Prof. Jiguang WANG, who has recieved the 2020/21 School Research Award from School of Science, HKUST, in appreciation of his excellent performance in research.
04-2021
Congratulations! Yurong WU, the UROP student in our lab, has been elected to the finalist of the 2021 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award!
03-2021
Congratulations to Yingxi, Dong, Yiyun, and Yoonhee! The Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) study has been officially accepted by American Journal of Human Genetics. In this study, we discovered and elucidate the role of MEKK3-I441M in CCM. The I441M mutation that actives kinase activity in CM endothelium is a fascinating finding that not only reveals etiology of popcorn-like CM but also provides a theoretical foundation for developing non-invasive methods for genotyping, patient diagnosis and potential targeted therapy against vascular malformations. Well done!
02-2021
Congratulations to the acceptance of "Classifying gastric cancer using FLORA reveals clinically-relevant molecular subtypes and highlights LINC01614 as a biomarker for patient prognosis" in Oncogene! The FLORA pipeline (https://github.com/WangLabHKUST/FLORA) developed by Yiyun CHEN, Hongyu SHI, Shengshuo HUANG and Prof. Jiguang WANG was applied to comprehensively profile the long non-coding RNAs and revealed lncRNA-based subtypes in gastric cancer which robustly predict patient survival. In collaboration with Prof. Jun Yu's lab at Chinese University of Hong Kong, the LINC01614 was verified as an oncogenic lncRNA that promotes gastric cancer proliferation and metastasis, and is a potential biomarker in gastric cancer.
01-2021
Congratulations to Quanhua MU, Zhaoshi BAO and Prof. Jiguang WANG, whose recent publication at Nature Communications has been selected as one of the top 10 Chinese glioma research advances by the Chinese glioma collaborative research group!
23-12-2020
Congratulations! Dr. Zhaoshi BAO has been selected as a recipient of the Beijing Distinguish Young Scientists Fund.
15-9-2020
Welcome Dr. Yumeng GUO to join the Wang Geonomics Lab as a Postdocal researcher.
1-9-2020
Welcome the new students: Zongchao MO (LIFS PhD program), Zhihan ZHU (BIEN Mphil program) and Jiabao LI (LIFS Mphil program)!
10-6-2020
Prof. Jiguang WANG has been appointed to serve on the Editorial Board of GPB (Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics), an international peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier with an Impact Factor 6.597.
28-4-2020
Congratulations to Ming Hong (James) Lui who won the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)!
28-4-2020
Congratulations to Yiyun CHEN who won the 2019/20 School of Science Postgraduate Research Excellence Award.
23-3-2020
Prof. WANG has been appointed as an Academic Editor of The Innovation between March 2020 and March 2023. The Innovation is a new transdisciplinary journal via the co-operation between Cell Press and YIPA (Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS) members.
01-2020
Prof. Jiguang WANG has joined the Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (JMCB), an Open Access journal with 5 year Impact Factor 5.856.
5-11-19
Congratulations! Prof. Jiguang WANG has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2019 National Natural Science Foundation of China - Excellent Young Scientists Fund (國家優秀青年科學家基金) (News in CBE and SENG).
04-09-2019
Congratulations to Quanhua MU who won the Hong Kong Medical & Healthcare Device Industries Association (HKMHDIA) Student Research Award!
Congratulations to Ming Hong (James) Lui who won the 1st Runner-Up of the Hong Kong Medical & Healthcare Device Industries Association (HKMHDIA) Student Research Award!
23-08-19
Welcome Yingxi YANG, who joins the Wang Lab as a PhD Student.
16-07-2019
Congratulations to Paula Weidemüller, who has got accepted to the EMBL-EBI PhD Programme together with the University of Cambridge!
16-07-2019
Welcome Dong SONG to join Wang Lab! Congratulations to Dong SONG, who has won the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)！
14-06-2019
Congratulations to Yiyun CHEN for receiving the George K Lee Foundation Scholarships of 2018/19.
24-4-2019
Congratulations! Prof. Jiguang WANG has been awarded the School of Engineering Young Investigator (Rising Star) Research Award 2018-2019.
29-03-19
Welcome Dr. Zhaoshi BAO, who joins the Wang Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
26-01-19
Welcome Wing San Luk, Harry Park and Elfarouk Harb, who join the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in Wang Lab.
02-01-19
Congratulations! Prof. Jiguang WANG, LIFS/CBE, and his collaborators from Beijing Tiantan Hospital have been recognized as the architects of one of China’s top 10 research advances in life sciences in 2018 by The Chinese Union of Life Science Societies.
HKUST-BJNI-SMC Joint Workshop on Imagenetics was held in Shenzhen, China, Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2018.
10-11-18
New Technologies and Translational Applications in Genomics was held in HKUST, Hong Kong, Nov 7 - Dec 9, 2018.
23-11-18
Imagenetics meeting was held in HKUST, Hong Kong, Oct 22, 2018.
10-10-18
Congratulations to Quanhua, Yiyun, Biaobin and Yoonhee who have uncovered the mutational landscape of secondary glioblastoma (sGBM) in East Asian cohort, through a fruitful collaboration mainly with Dr. Tao Jiang's team from Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and Beijing Tiantan Hospital. This systematic study reveals genomic differences among low-grade glioma, primary glioblastoma and sGBM. Strikingly, we discovered that genomic mutations that lead to METex14 are highly enriched in sGBM cases, and the presence of METex14 transcripts is an important biomarker that predicts significantly worse patient survival. More importantly, MET protein is an actionable drug target, which has been verified in a MET-targeted Phase I clinical trial led by our collaborator at Beijing Tiantan Hospital. Out of the six sGBM patients who completed the trial, two achieved partial response, two achieved stable disease, and two have progressed disease. This encouraging result highlights the great potential of precision cancer medicine in treating previous incurable cancers by tailoring particular therapies according to personalised genomic information.
01-09-18
Welcome Xiangcheng SHI, who joins the Wang Lab as MSc Student.
01-09-18
Welcome Fufang QIU, who joins the Wang Lab as MSc Student.
01-09-18
Welcome Paula Weidemüller, who joins the Wang Lab as Intern Student.
26-07-18
Congratulations! Quanhua received SENG Top RPG Award in 2017/18.
18-06-18
Congratulations! Yiyun has been chosen for the Overseas Research Award of the university in 2017/18.
18-04-18
Congratulations! Biaobin received travel award in The 1st AsiaEvo Conference.
07-03-18
Welcome Mingrui JIANG, who joins the Wang Lab as Research Assistant.
07-01-18
Welcome Shengshuo HUANG, who joins the Wang Lab as PhD student.
The kick-off meeting of The Asian Glioma Genome Atlas (AGGA) has been successfully held in Beijing. Our team is one of the three founding members. AGGA is a precision neuro-oncology collaboration between China and Korea, aiming to create a comprehensive framework to study RNA sequencing, DNA sequencing, imaging, clinical and drug-screening data from more than 1,500 patients.
31-09-17
Congratulations! In a collaborative project with Dr. Kitai Kim at MSKCC, Quanhua MU has been listed as a co-author on the paper titled "RNA exosome complex-Mediated control of redox status in Pluripotent Stem Cells".
25-09-17
Welcome Ming Hong Lui (James), who join the Wang Lab as an undergraguate research student.
13-08-17
Welcome Hanli HUANG, who join the Wang Lab as Research Assistant.
08-08-17
Welcome Nasir Mahmood Abbasi, who join the Wang Lab as Research Assistant.
08-04-17
Jiguang WANG was invited as a speaker in the China Society of Biotechnology Young Scientists Forum II, Guangzhou.
19-03-17
Jiguang WANG was invited as a Keynote Speaker in the 1st annual meeting of Society for Neuro-Oncology of China at China National Convention Center, Beijing.
10-03-17
Congratulations to Biaobin, who has just been appointed as an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Postdoctoral Fellow.
10-03-17
Welcome Hongyu SHI and Tianci WANG, who join the lab as UROP students!
15-02-17
Welcome Yiyun CHEN, Yoonhee Nam, and Quanhua MU, who join the lab as PhD students.
13-01-17
Jiguang WANG was invited as a Keynote Speaker in the 8th Institute for Refractory Cancer Research (IRCR) International Symposium held on January 13, 2017 at Samsung Medical Center (SMC) in Seoul, Korea.
Our noncoding RNA work was highlighted in Columbia Newsroom: "Map Quest: New Techniques Reveal How the Immune System Stays Nimble".
25-09-16
Jiguang WANG was invited as a speaker in a Nature conference: "The Genomics of Common Diseases 2016".
15-09-16
Jiguang WANG was named one of the winners in the Best Poster Competition: "Young Investigators Celebrated at Department of Systems Biology Retreat".
10-07-16
The GBM paper is highlighted by the TCGA website at NIH: "Longitudinal Study Charts Brain Tumor Evolution".
07-07-16
Home page of the Wang Lab launches at HKUST.
20-06-16
The findings on GBM evolution are highlighted by Cancer Discovery: "Brain Tumors Under Therapy Undergo Highly Branched Clonal Evolution".
06-06-16
Our GBM research is reported by the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia: "Study of Glioblastoma Tumor Evolution Reveals Strategies Against Advanced Disease".
