Phone

303-270-2535

Fax

303-270-2136

Email

wangz@njhealth.org

Gender

Male

Research Interests

My responsibilities are to oversee the various instruments housed in Center for Genetics and Therapeutics, provide training for interested investigators as well as utilizing available genetic tools to identify genetic patterns of certain pulmonary diseases. Genetic assay development is also an area of research interest.

Education & Training

Education

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica

PhD, 1995

Fellowships

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine

1995-2001

Awards & Recognition

Recent or Important Publications

Peters BA, Kan Z, Sebisanovic D, Pujara K, Wang Z, Hong P, Chow B, Stinson J, Carlton VE, Pham TQ, Stern H, Waring P, Hillan KJ, Eberhard DA, Sauvage F, Zheng J, Faham M, Seshagiri S. 2007 Highly efficient somatic-mutation identification using Escherichia coli mismatch-repair detection. Nature Methods 4: 713-715.

Faham M, Zheng J, Moorhead M, Fakhrai-Rad H, Namsaraev E, Wong K, Wang Z, Chow SG, Lee L, Suyenaga K, Reichert J, Boudreau A, Eberle J, Bruckner C, Jain M, Karlin-Neumann G, Jones HB, Willis TD, Buxbaum JD, Davis RW. 2005 Multiplexed variation scanning for 1,000 amplicons in hundreds of patients using mismatch repair detection (MRD) on tag arrays. Proc. Natl. Aca. Sci. USA. 102: 14717 – 14722.

Wang Z, Moro E, Kovacs K, Yu R, Melmed S. 2003 Pituitary tumor transforming gene-null male mice exhibit impaired pancreatic beta cell proliferation and diabetes. Proc. Natl. Aca. Sci. USA . 100: 3428-3432.

Wang Z, Yu R, Melmed S. 2001 Mice lacking pituitary tumor transforming gene (PTTG) show testicular and splenic hypoplasia, thymic hyperplasia, aberrant cell cycle progression and premature centromere division. Mol. Endo. 15: 1870-1879.

Wang Z, Melmed S. 1998 Functional Map of a Placenta Specific Enhancer within a Functional Promoter of the Human Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Receptor Gene and its Alternative Promoter Usage. J Biol Chem 273: 26069-77.