Weiguo Han
Weiguo Han, PhD, serves as assistant professor, research, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy. He specializes in next-generation sequencing and cancer biomarker analysis and boasts extensive research and development experience in genetics, epigenetics and molecular biology. His work includes DNA, RNA miRNA, gene cloning, CRISPR/Cas9, SNP and genetic contributions to lung cancer.Author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, Han holds three patents. He received a National Institutes of Health grant for gene methylation analysis, two-year grant for epigenetic lung cancer biomarker research from the American Lung Association Research Training Fellowship and Scholar-in-Training Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.
Areas of Research:
Cancer biomarkers
CRISPR/Cas9, SNP
DNA/RNA methylation
Gene expression
Lung cancer
Molecular biology
Next Generation Sequencing technology
Degree(s)
- PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 2001
- MS, Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences (Chongqing, China), 1991
- BS, Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Zhengjiang Medical College (Jiangsu, China), 1984