Yongxing Wang
Assistant Professor at UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolYongxing Wang is an Assistant Professor and pulmonary research scientist at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center with over a decade of experience dissecting lung epithelial innate immunity to prevent acute bacterial and viral pneumonia. His lab leverages mouse genetics, protein biochemistry, and mechanistic studies to show how aerosolized TLR agonists (Pam2/ODN) and epithelial innate sensing trigger protective pathways such as ROS production and RIG-I/MAVS activation. Trained in genetics and cancer biology (PhD under Guillermina Lozano), he previously demonstrated that p53 restoration produces distinct tumor outcomes depending on mutation type, informing potential precision therapeutic strategies. His postdoctoral work linked metabolism to metastasis, revealing how metformin and regulators like HIF1a and PASK influence cancer cell invasion. Combining deep wet-lab expertise with quantitative interests in PDE/ODE, fluid dynamics, and numerical analysis, he uniquely bridges molecular immunology and mathematical approaches to biological problems. Based in Houston, he focuses on translating fundamental innate-immune mechanisms into novel interventions for immunocompromised patients.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Gene & Development, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Gene & Development at The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesUniversity of California Santa CruzProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yongxingwang/fsi-code-download
Aug 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
yongxingwang/yongxingwang.github.io
Aug 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:508 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 6 years 5 months
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