Dr. Chaochen Wang received his Ph.D. from the Shanghai Biochemical Cell Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. Since 2009, Dr. Wang has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in US and was promoted to a staff scientist position in 2015. In December 2018, Dr. Wang Chaochen left NIH and joined the ZJU-UoE Institute as an assistant professor/principle investigator. Dr. Wang’s research is focusing on epigenetic gene regulations in cell fate transition during development and tumorigenesis, by levering cutting-edge techniques including gene editing, epigenomic editing and bioinformatics analysis. Dr. Wang has published more than 30 papers in high-tier journals such as PNAS, Nature Genetics, JCI, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Elife, and NAR.

The major research directions of the laboratory include:

1. Understand the epigenetic regulations in mammary stem cell and breast cancer stem cells

2. Investigate the molecular mechanisms of the dynamics of cell fate and niche in mammary gland development

3. Explore the cell-cell communications in mammary gland development

Dr. Wang's laboratory has immediate openings for Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, please contact Dr. Wang (chaochenwang@intl.zju.edu.cn) for more details.