Jianrong Wang
Soochow University School of Medicine, China
Biography
Jianrong Wang earned his PhD degree in The Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July of 1997. In October of that year, he was appointed as a research professor in a municipal institute in Shanghai China. After moving to the US in January of 1999, he conducted research primarily at Cornell University. In March of 2010, he was offered a professorial position at the Hematology Center of Cyrus Tang Medical Institute Soochow University. His laboratory focuses on the understanding of the biology of autophagy in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis, with an ultimate goal of preventing hematological oncogenic germination by protecting normal stem cells from malignant transformation.