Jianlong Wang

Jianlong Wang is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at Columbian University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). He received his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Biology in Nankai University (predecessor of the College of Life Sciences) and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied the regulation of plant RNA virus-host interactions. After a short year of postdoctoral research at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he joined the Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School to continue his postdoctoral research, focusing on the studies of the pluripotency regulatory network in embryonic stem cells. He established his independent laboratory in the Department of Cell, Development and Regeneration Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, in January 2009 and held a tenured full Professorship in Mount Sinai before moving to CUIMC in September 2019. His laboratory is mainly engaged in understanding the molecular mechanisms of stemness control in pluripotent and cancer cells, with a primary focus on transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and epigenetic regulatory mechanisms. His lab has published a number of high-impact research papers in Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Stem Cell, Molecular Cell, Cell Reports, eLife, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, etc. He has received Harvard Stem Cell Institute Cell Development Award, the Irma T. Hirschl and Weil-Caulier Career Scientist Award, and the Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award. His detailed laboratory research can be found at http://www.stemcellwanglab.com