Tian-Li Wang, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Oncology
Dr. Tian-Li Wang is the Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory of Female Reproductive Cancer and a senior member at the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. She has been a leader in several program projects/grants including a multi-institutional Consortium Award from DoD-CDMRP (total budget 12 M). Currently she is an Executive Co-Director of the Ovarian Cancer SPORE funded by NCI.
Dr. Wang earned her undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan University and received a Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She went on to a post-doc training in the retina neural circuity research area at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently, completed her training in Cancer Genetics at the Howard Hughes Medical Institution at Johns Hopkins.
Her current research interests are genomic and epigenomic studies of ovarian cancer, cancer detection and prevention, as well as new therapeutic strategies to overcome chemoresistance.