Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. from the Georgia State University. She then pursued postdoctoral study with Dr. Peter Sicinski at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical University. Dr. Wang was then recruited to the NCI-Designated Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC and established her independent research program in the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Medical University of South Carolina in 2018. The focus of Dr. Wang’s laboratory is to understand the mechanisms of tumor progression through analysis of both the cancer cells as well as the tumor infiltrated immune cells.
Selected Publications:
1.Xueliang Gao#, Yongxia Wu, Joel M. Chick, Andrea Abbott, Baishan Jiang, David J. Wang, Susana Comte-Walters, Roger H. Johnson, Nathaniel Oberholtzer, Michael I. Nishimura, Steven P. Gygi, Anand Mehta, Denis C. Guttridge, Lauren Ball, Shikhar Mehrotra, Piotr Sicinski, Xue-Zhong Yu, Haizhen Wang#. Targeting protein tyrosine phosphatases for CDK6 induced immunotherapy resistance. Cell Reports. 2023, 42(4): 112314. PMID: 37000627. (# Author for correspondence)
2.Shasha Yin, Liu Liu, Lauren E. Ball, Yalong Wang, Mark T. Bedford, Stephen A. Duncan, Haizhen Wang, Wenjian Gan. CDK5-PRMT1-WDR24 signaling cascade promotes mTORC1 signaling and tumor growth. Cell Reports. 2023, 42(4): 112316. PMID: 36995937.
3. Wenjun Xiong, Xueliang Gao, Tiantian Zhang, Baishan Jiang, Mingming Hu, Xia Bu, Yang Gao, Lin-Zhou Zhang, Bo-Lin Xiao, Chuan He1, Yishuang Sun, Haiou Li, Jie Shi, Xiangling Xiao, Bolin Xiang, Conghua Xie, Gang Chen, Haojian Zhang, Wenyi Wei, Gordon J. Freeman, Hong-Bing Shu, Haizhen Wang*, Jinfang Zhang*. USP8 inhibition reshapes an inflamed tumor microenvironment that potentiates the immunotherapy. Nature Communications. 2022, 13(1):1700. PMCID: PMC8971425. (# Author for correspondence)
4.Yongxia Wu, Jianing Fu*, Haizhen Wang*, Xue-Zhong Yu. Donor T Cell Repertoire Profiling in Recipient Lymphoid and Parenchyma Organs Reveals GVHD pathogenesis at Clonal Levels after Bone Marrow Transplantation in mice. Frontiers Immunology. 2021, 12:778996. PMCID: PMC8688739. (*These authors contribute equally)
5. Xueliang Gao*, Shenhui Qin*, Yongxia Wu, Chen Chu, Baishan Jiang, Roger H. Johnson, Dong Kuang, Jie Zhang, Xi Wang, Anand Mehta, Kenneth D. Tew, Gustavo W. Leone, Xue-Zhong Yu and Haizhen Wang. Nuclear PFKP promotes CXCR4 dependent T-ALL infiltration. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2021, 131(16): e143119. PMCID: PMC8363288. (#Author for correspondence.)
----Commented in Journal of Clinical Investigation (doi:10.1172/JCI151295, August 16, 2021)
6. Xueliang Gao, Gustavo W. Leone, Haizhen Wang. Cyclin D-CDK4/6 functions in cancer. Advances in Cancer Research. 2020, (148): 147-169.PMID: 32723562.