Lily Wang, Ph.D.

Roles

• Biography

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  Dr. Wang moved to Miami to join the faculty of the University of Miami in 2015. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Since then, she has successfully led several NIH sponsored projects, utilizing data science approaches to improve our understanding of complex diseases.
  
  For more information, please visit https://transbioinfolab.org/

• Education & Training

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  Education

  2004: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

  PhD, Biostatistics

  2000: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

  MS, Biostatistics

  1998: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

  BA, Mathematics, summa cum laude

• Honors & Awards

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  Travel Award for Young Investigator's Workshop, International Biometric Society

  Student Travel Award, University of North Carolina Graduate School

  Most Promising Mathematics Major Award, Temple University

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship

  Outstanding Achievement Scholarship, Temple University

  Temple University Honors Program, Temple University

  The President’s Award, Temple University

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• Research Interests

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  Dr. Wang's research is focused on developing and applying innovative computational models to advance precision medicine in dementia and cancers. Her recent work includes developing methods and tools for analyzing DNA methylation data, integrative analysis of large heterogeneous datasets, and identifying methylation-based biomarkers.
  
  See details at https://transbioinfolab.org/

• Publications

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  PEER REVIEWED

  An X chromosome-wide DNA methylation study of Alzheimer’s disease

  Alzheimer's & dementia 2025

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  Critical evaluation of the reliability of DNA methylation probes on the Illumina MethylationEPIC v1.0 BeadChip microarrays

  Epigenetics 2024

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  Impact of sex, ancestry, and local ancestry on Apolipoprotein E (APOE) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD): a pooled case-control analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC)

  Alzheimer's & dementia 2024

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  MIAMI-AD (Methylation in Aging and Methylation in AD): an integrative knowledgebase that facilitates explorations of DNA methylation across sex, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease

  Alzheimer's & dementia 2024

  Additional file 1 of Distinct CSF biomarker-associated DNA methylation in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively normal subjects

  2024

  
  

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• Professional Activities

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  Faculty search committee, Department of Public Health Sciences (Prevention Sciences)

  Committee Member, 2021

  University of Miami Medical Faculty Council

  Committee Member, 2020

  Committee to Review Criteria of Appointment, Promotion and Tenure

  Committee Member, 2018

  Statistical and Bioinformatics Consulting Core, Hussman Institute for Human Genomics

  Board of Directors, 2015

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