Biography
Dr. Yemin Wang is an adjunct professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, as well as a staff scientist in the Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer. He currently oversees the animal research core for the Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OVCARE) team after joining in 2012 to study how genetic mutations in microRNA biogenesis gene DICER1 drive cancer development.
Dr. Wang's lab at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute focuses on addressing how abnormality in SWI/SNF chromatin complex drives cancer development in lineage-specific manner as well as identifying therapeutic vulnerabilities in SWI/SNF-deficient cancers.
