Professor Wang, John Junwen

BS (HZAU); MS (Jiangnan); MCIT (UPenn); PhD (UW-Seattle)

Professor Wang, John Junwen  - HKU Faculty of Dentistry 香港大學牙醫學院

Profile

Title
  • Professor
    教授
Division
Applied Oral Sciences & Community Dental Care
E-mail
Phone
+852 2859 0128
Biography
Professor Wang is currently a professor in Faculty of Dentistry, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was a full Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, and affiliate Professor at Arizona State University, USA. He obtained his PhD from University of Washington, Masters from University of Pennsylvania, USA and Jiangnan University, and BE from Huazhong Agricultural University, China. Prof. Wang’s research interests are in Bioinformatics, gene regulatory network construction, AI and methodology development for data analysis. He has published over 130 papers in journals such as Nature genetics, Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, Circulation, NAR, Bioinformatics, and has obtained funding from RGC of Hong Kong, and NIH of USA as project leaders. He was an ISI top 1% cited scholar, an outstanding young researcher awardee at HKU, and is currently an associate editor of Journal of Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy.
Research Theme
Population Oral Health
Areas of Research Expertise
  • Bioinformatics
  • Precision Dentistry/Medicine
  • Systems Biology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Drug Discovery
Research Profile