Dr. WANG Qianfei "Jeffrey" is currently a professor and principal investigator at Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also a joint professor at the State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology and a member of the 13th and 14th expert committee in Medical Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014. Dr. WANG received his bachelor degree in clinical medicine from Shandong Medical University in China. He then earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2002 (thesis advisors: Drs. Mark Schlissel and Alan Friedman). Under the supervision of Dr. Edward Rubin, Dr. WANG pursued his postdoctoral training in the Genomics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Before Dr. WANG joined the faculty at Beijing Institute of Genomics, he was an Assistant Professor (Research Associate) at Section of Hematology/Oncology, the University of Chicago (2007-2009). Dr. WANG's background in clinical medicine, experimental biology and genomics has provided him with a unique opportunity to decipher the molecular mechanism and regulatory network controlling hematopoiesis and the development of human leukemia.

Leukemia, genomic aberrations, genomic signatures