Li-San Wang

Professor

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Computer and Information Science

Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center (PNGC)

Research Areas

  • Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
  • Computational Methods for big data in genomics research

Awards

2022: Penn Faculty Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

2016: Senior Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)

2008: Fellow, 16th Annual Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research

Projects/Papers

Variant-gene pair in silico analyses and functional validation of LOAD GWAS loci in human brain-relevant cell types identify EGFR as a target gene for potential drug repurposing
Genomic Frontiers in Alzheimer’s Research: A Primer on the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) and its AI/ML Opportunities
943 variants identified synthesizing chromatin conformation capture and quantitative trait loci with results from the Alzheimer’s Disease Variant Portal study

Students