CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Name:  Xin Wei Wang, Ph.D.                                      

 

Education:

 

1982          B.S., Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China

1984          M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

      1991          Ph.D., New York University, New York, NY

 

Brief Chronology of Employment and Training:

 

1982-1985       Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Pharmacology, Shanghai               Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai,             China

1985-1986       Research Fellow in Department of Pharmacology, The University of                     Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX

1986-1987       Research Scientist, Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York                   University Medical Center, New York, NY

1987-1991       Graduate Research Assistant in the Institute of Environmental Medicine,              NYU Medical Center, New York, NY

1991                Postdoctoral Fellowship in Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley,          NJ

1992-1995       CRTA Fellowship, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 

1995-1998       Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National                     Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD

1998-2005       Investigator and Head, Liver Carcinogenesis Section, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD

2002-2005       Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD

2005-Pres.       Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD

2005-Pres.       Senior Investigator and Head, Liver Carcinogenesis Section, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD      

 

Societies:

 

      American Association for Cancer Research (member)

      American Association for the Advancement of Science (member)

      CAST-Biomedical/Pharmaceutical Society (board of director)

      CCR-NCI HIV and Cancer Virology Faculty (members)

      The International Society of Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis (Board of Directors)

      International Liver Cancer Association (Founding member)

     

Faculty Membership:

 

      CCR-NCI Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology Faculty

      CCR-NCI Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics Faculty

      CCR-NCI Gene Expression Faculty

      CCR-NCI Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Faculty

      CCR-NCI Molecular Targets Faculty

      Gastrointestinal Malignancies Working Group

      Metastasis Working Group          

 

Honors, Distinguished Lectures and Other Special Scientific Recognition:   

 

Recipient of Best student awards from Shanghai First Medical College, 1980-1981

Graduate fellowship award from Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1982-1985

Recipient of Best thesis (MS) award from Committee of Pharmaceutics Sinica, Shanghai             Branch, 1984

Member of Graduate Student Council in Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese               Academy of Sciences, 1983-1984

Graduate research assistantship from New York University Medical Center, 1987-1991

Recipient of a student travel award from American Society of Toxicology for attending                annual meeting in 1988

Recipient of Graduate student award for meritorious research presented by the                             Carcinogenicity Specialty Section, Society of Toxicology, 1991

Invited lecture, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 1992

Invited speaker to the Life Sciences Symposium on Human Genetics, Association for                   Chinese Scientists in America, the Great Washington Chapter, 1993

Invited lecture, INSERM Unit, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 1994

Invited lecture, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Medical Genetics Center,                     Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1994

Invited speaker, Symposium on DNA Repair and Human Syndrome, NIH Research                      Festivals, 1994

Invited speaker, DNA repair interest group, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 1995

Invited speaker, Genetic Susceptibility and Molecular Carcinogenesis, AACR, Keystone,             1996

Invited speaker, 1996 Shanghai International Symposium on Liver Cancer & Hepatitis,                Shanghai, China, 1996

Invited lecture, Department of Pathology & Oncology, University of Maryland Cancer                 Center, Baltimore, MD, 1996     

Invited speaker, IASLC Workshop, Nancy, France, 1996

Invited speaker, symposium on apoptosis, Scanning Microscopy International, Chicago,               IL, 1997

Invited speaker, Cancer genetics and tumor suppressor genes conference, Frederick,                     MD, 1997

Invited lecture, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 1997

Invited speaker, XVIII International Congress of Genetics, Beijing, China, 1998

Invited speaker, the 5th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells in Fundamental Clinical Immunology, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998

Invited lecture, The National Capital Area Branch of the Society for In Vitro Biology,                  Beltsville, MD, 1998

Recipient of NIH Technology Transfer Awards, 1998, 2000, 2002-2007

Invited speaker, the 14th Aspen Cancer Conference, Aspen, CO, 1999

Invited speaker, Symposium on DNA Repair and Apoptosis, NIH Research Festivals, 1999

Invited lecture, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of                       Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2000

Invited lecture, Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2000

Invited speaker, the 9th International Congress of Toxicology, Brisbane, Australia, 2001

Invited speaker, the 16th Aspen Cancer Conference, Aspen, CO, 2001

Invited lecture, Multicenter Hemophilia Cohort Study-II, Washington, DC, 2002

Invited speaker, Molecular Genomics 2002: profiling of gene expression, Galveston, TX,             2002

Lecture, Graduate Class for Topics in Molecular Epidemiology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2002

Lecture, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 2002

Invited speaker, FASEB Summer Research Conference on ÒMechanisms of Liver Growth, Differentiation and Molecular Pathogenesis of Hepatic Diseases, Snow Mass, CO, 2002

Organizer, International Workshop on Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Bethesda, MD, 2002

Invited lecture, Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2002

Invited lecture, Cancer Institute/Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China 2002

Invited lecture, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Center for Biomedical Research, Doylestown, PA, 2002

Invited lecture, Bernie Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, March 2003

Invited lecture, Graduate Class for Topics in Molecular Epidemiology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, May 2003

Invited lecture, The Thirteenth International Symposium of Hiroshima Cancer Seminar, Hiroshima, Japan, October 2003

Invited lecture, Symposium on Molecular Diagnosis of Human Cancer, Sponsored by Shanghai Medical Association, Shanghai, China, November 2003

Invited lecture, The GW Cancer Institute, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, January 2004

Invited lecture, Hong Kong Shanghai International Liver Congress 2004, Hong Kong, China, February 2004

Invited lecture, The 19th Aspen Cancer Conference, Aspen, Colorado, August 2004

Invited lecture, The 3rd International Conference on Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis, Sapporo, Japan, August 2004

Invited lecture, The 35th Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2004

Guest speaker, Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York, New York, October 2004

Keystone Symposia Program Committee Meeting (as an ad hoc member), Keystone, Colorado, January 2005

Distinguished lecturer, Frontiers in Oncology Seminar Series: ÒProgress on molecular diagnosis and molecular targets for human hepatocellular carcinomaÓ. University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, March 2005

Invited speaker, The National Cancer Institute Liver Cancer Symposium, Bethesda, MD, April 2005

Invited speaker, The 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Anaheim, CA, April 2005

Invited speaker and co-organizer, NCI Symposium, Shanghai-Hong Kong International Liver Congress 2006, Shanghai, China, March 2006

Invited speaker, CNIO Cancer Conference, Madrid, Spain, May 2006

Invited speaker, 4th International Society of Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis Conference, Hawaii, August 2006

Invited speaker, GTCbio 5th annual conference on Cytokines and Inflammation, Breckenridge, CO, January 2007

Invited speaker, The 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Los Angeles, CA, April 2007

Invited speaker, Center for Human Genomics Seminar Series, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, May, 2007

Invited speaker, Cancer Genetics and Epidemiology Program Monthly Seminar Series, the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, June 2007

 

Administrative Service:

 

      Institutional Service

 

            NCI-UMD Tissue Resource Technical Review Panel, 2000, 2005

NIH FARE Committee, 2001-2002, 2004-2005

            LHC Microarray Interest Group, 2002-2004

            NIH-NCI HCC Clinical Steering Committee, 2005-Pres.

            CCR-NCI Inflammation and Cancer Initiative Discussion, 2005

 

      National Service

 

Organizer, International Workshop on Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Bethesda, Maryland, 2002

The International Society of Gastroenterological Carcinogenesis (Board of Directors), 2003-2005

NRC Research Advisor, 2005-Pres.

Co-organizer, NCI- cosponsored Symposium on liver cancer at the Shanghai-Hong Kong Liver Congress, March 2006

Co-organizer, Keystone Symposia, Beijing, China, 2007

Peer Review Committee Member, American Cancer Society, 2007-Pres.

 

Reviewer for the following Scientific Journals: (1995-Present)

 

      American Journal of Pathology

      Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Cancer      

      Cancer Detection and Prevention

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

      Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

      Cancer Letters

Cancer Research

      Carcinogenesis (Editorial Board), 2002-2005

      Clinical Cancer Research

Gastroenterology

Genes and Development

Experimental Cell Research

      FEBS Letters

      Hepatology

      Immunity

      Journal of Biological Chemistry

      Journal of Clinical Investigation

      Journal of Hepatology

      Journal of National Cancer Institute

      Molecular and Cellular Biology

      Molecular Cancer Research

Molecular Carcinogenesis

      Neoplasia

      New England Journal of Medicine

      Oncogene

      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

      Photochemistry & Photobiology

 

Teaching Service:

 

      Preceptor, HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program (6 students)

1994-1995       Heidi Yeh, M.D., University of Pennsylvania

1995-1996       Michael Gibson, M.D., University of Maryland

1996-1997       Nissim Khabie, M.D., Mayo clinics

1997-1998       Anne Manicone, M.D., University of Washington

2003-2004       Brian Zipser, M.D., Brown University

2006-               Giang Nguyen, Albany Medical College

      2000                Preceptor, BESIP of Whitaker Foundation of NIH

      2000                Preceptor, UC Irvine Washington DC Center Program

      1998-Pres.       Preceptor, NCI pre-CRTA program

      1999-Pres.       Preceptor, NCI Summer Research Internship (7 students)

2000-2004       Guest Lecturer, the Topics in Molecular Epidemiology course Georgetown University Medical School

Thesis Advisor:

 

      1996                Jill Coursen, M.S., Hood College

      2002                Qinghai Ye, M.D./Ph.D., Shanghai Medical University  

      2006                Huliang Jia, M.D./Ph.D., Fudan University

      2007                Quiling Lin, M.D./Ph.D., Fudan University

 

Thesis Committee:

 

1999                Joo-Yeon Yoo, Ph.D., University of Maryland

 

Grant Support:

 

      1998-2000       Principal Investigator, Mechanism of Human liver carcinogenesis, DBS                           Budget Allocation, NCI, NIH

      2000-Pres.       Principal Investigator, Mechanism of Human liver carcinogenesis, CCR                           Budget Allocation, NCI, NIH

 

Additional Competitive Funds:

 

2001                Principal Investigator

                        SAGE transcript profiles. DBS, NCI, NIH;

                        Total direct costs awarded: $40,000

 

2001                Principal Investigator                                                                                           

                        Molecular profiling of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma. DBS, NCI

                        Total direct costs awarded: $19,500

 

2001                Principal Investigator                                                                                            Program travel. DBS, NCI, NIH

                        Total direct costs awarded: $15,000

 

2002                Principal Investigator                                                                                           

                        International Workshop. CCR, NCI, NIH,

                        Total direct costs awarded: $25,000

 

2002                Principal Investigator

                        International Workshop. NIH Office of Rare Diseases

                        Total direct costs awarded: $20,000

 

2003                Principal Investigator

                        Program travel. CCR, NCI, NIH

                        Total direct costs awarded: $15,000

 

2004                Principal Investigator

                        Program travel. CCR, NCI, NIH

                        Total direct costs awarded: $15,000

 

2005                Principal Investigator

                        Gene expression profiling of HCC by microarray

                        Total direct costs awarded: $60,000