معرفی
Wang-Xia Wang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, affiliated with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and SCOBIRC. Her research focuses on microRNA biology in neurodegenerative diseases and neurotrauma, including Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and hippocampal sclerosis of aging.
- Education: PhD in Plant Biochemistry from Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Postdoc in NF-κB signaling at Weizmann Institute; Postdoc in MicroRNA biology at University of Kentucky
Research Interests include neuroinflammation regulation via miR-223-3p, sex dimorphism in X-chromosome-linked miRNAs, nanoparticle miRNA delivery, and biofluid biomarker discovery. Her work explores mitochondrial-miRNA crosstalk and ultrastructural changes in neurodegenerative diseases.
Publication Trends emphasize miR-15/107 family roles in neurodegeneration, TBI pathophysiology, and biomarker development for vasospasm and cognitive decline. She investigates sex-specific inflammatory miRNA responses and mitochondrial stress pathways.
Laboratory: The Wang Lab develops subcellular fractionation techniques for human brain miRNA analysis, focusing on neuroinflammatory and metabolic pathways in aging.
