Dr. Jenny Y. Wang
Head of the Cancer and Stem Cell Laboratory
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Jenny Wang is Head of the Cancer and Stem Cell Laboratory at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She returned to Australia in 2011 from Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, where she undertook postdoctoral research in Leukemia Stem Cell Biology (2005-2011). The main research focus in Dr Wang’s Laboratory is to develop novel therapeutic strategies specifically targeting leukemia stem cells that are often resistant to commonly used cancer therapies and that are now believed to be the engine driving the growth of a tumor and the major cause for treatment failure and relapse in leukemia.
Research Interest
cellular and molecular mechanisms, genetic and/or epigenetic genes, oncogenic pathways in leukaemia stem cells.