Jianlong Wang, PhD

Dr. Jianlong Wang is a Professor of Medical Sciences in Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and a member of the Tumor Biology and Microenvironment research program at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC). He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and holds an M.S. in Molecular Virology.

Joining CUIMC in 2019, Dr. Wang's research explores the molecular mechanisms underlying embryonic and cancer stemness, focusing on pluripotency-associated factors such as Tet1/2 and Zfp281/ZNF281. His lab leverages genomic and proteomic methods alongside cellular and mouse models to study the complex regulatory systems—transcriptional, post-transcriptional, translational, and post-translational—that dictate cell fate and reprogramming, contributing to insights into leukemogenesis, breast cancer metastasis, and other oncogenic processes.