LIEWEI WANG
professor
Mayo Clinic Medical School
USA
Biography
Dr. Liewei Wang received her medical degree from FuDan University Medical School, Shanghai, followed by a PhD degree in Pharmacology from the Mayo Clinic. She trained in a leading national center for pharmacogenomics (PGx) research. Currently Dr. Wang is Professor of Pharmacology at Mayo where she has developed a research program focused on the use of genomic technology joined with a cell-based model system and clinical samples to study mechanisms of cancer biology and drug response. As Co-PI of the Mayo-NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN) grant for the past decade she has led PGx functional genomic studies of breast cancer designed to identify and understand biomarkers for response to endocrine and chemotherapy of breast cancer.
Research Interest
Dr. Wang has published extensively in high impact journals and has received the Astellas Award from Astellas Foundation and the 2016 Leon Goldberg Early Investigator Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.