Rate My Professor Jenny Wang

Associate Professor Jenny Wang heads the Cancer and Stem Cell Laboratory at the University of Sydney's Kolling Institute of Medical Research, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. An NHMRC Leadership Fellow, she returned to Sydney in 2011 after completing postdoctoral research in leukemia stem cell biology at Harvard Medical School from 2005 to 2011. She holds a PhD and previously served as Group Leader at the Children's Cancer Institute, UNSW, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW's School of Clinical Medicine. Wang's research elucidates the transformation of normal stem cells into cancer stem cells in lethal blood cancers, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML), characterized by high relapse rates due to chemotherapy-resistant stem cells. Her laboratory utilizes advanced methodologies such as single-cell multiomics, CUT&Tag, functional genomics, epigenetics, signaling pathways analysis, cancer metabolism studies, and patient-derived xenograft models to pinpoint therapeutic vulnerabilities and devise targeted interventions including immunotherapies and CAR-T cell therapies that selectively eliminate malignant cells while preserving healthy ones.