LAB NEWS
April, 2026
Qiwei will serve as a speaker at the 13th Southeastern Immunology Symposium (SIS), June 2 – 5, 2026, at Asheville, NC. His talk is titled “Targeting Tumor–TAM Interactions to Enhance STING-Mediated Antitumor Immunity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.”
Hannah and Dhillon are graduating from UVA and moving on to exciting next chapters! Hannah will join Dr. Tara Barron’s lab at UT Southwestern as a research technician, and Dhillon will begin his MD studies at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
We are incredibly fortunate to have had them in the lab over the past two years and are so proud of everything they have accomplished. They will be deeply missed, but we cannot wait to hear about all the great things ahead. Congratulations, Hannah and Dhillon — way to go!
Sophie has passed her qualifying exam and is now an official PhD candidate — a great achievement and an exciting milestone for our lab! Congratulations, Sophie!
We celebrated and bid farewell at Public Fish & Oyster.
Jackie received her personally embroidered lab coat at the BIMS Lab Coat Ceremony. Congratulations, Jackie!!
Feb, 2026
The Wang lab has been awarded a UVA Cancer Center Pilot Project for Single-Component and Collaborative Award. Dr. Sarah Dremel is a co-investigator on this award.
Jackie Helen Edmonds joins the Wang Lab as our new graduate student. Welcome, Jackie!!
Jan, 2026
Jackie Helen Edmonds, a first-year BIMS student, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Jackie!
Qiwei will serve as a Plenary Speaker at the 28th Annual Meeting of Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium (TRCCC), February 25-27, at Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Champion, PA. His talk is titled “Targeting tumor-TAM interactions to advance immune-oncology in triple-negative breast cancer.”
July, 2025
Ryan Kemper, a year 2 student from UVA’s Medical Scientist Training Program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Ryan!
Nadia Sadanandan, a year 2 student from UVA’s Medical Scientist Training Program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Nadia!
May, 2025
Sophie was selected as a trainee for The Cancer Research Training Program (T32) at UVA. Congratulations!!
April, 2025
Sophie presented her poster in AACR.
April, 2025
Dhillon presented in UVA’s 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
April, 2025
Sophie published a commentary in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. This is the first publication from the Wang Lab!
Mar, 2025
Qiwei delivered a talk titled “Targeting the Intersections of Oncogenic, Immunogenic, and Metabolic Pathways to Advance Breast Cancer Treatment” at the Cell Biology & Physiology Seminar Series at Washington University in St. Louis.
Feb, 2025
Sophie O’Keefe, a first-year BIMS student, officially joins the Wang Lab as our first graduate student. Welcome, Sophie!
Sophie gave both oral and poster presentations at the 2025 Translational Research Cancer Centers Consortium (TRCCC)!
Jan, 2025
Kobra Foroughi, a first-year graduate student from UVA’s BIMS program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Kobra!
Oct, 2024
Akshita Maheshkumar Mirani, a first-year graduate student from UVA’s BIMS program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Akshita!
Steve W Feins, a first-year graduate student from UVA’s BIMS program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Steve!
Sep, 2024
Hannah Elaine Harkins, a biology student from UVA’s Class of 2026, joins the Wang Lab as an Undergraduate Researcher. Welcome, Hannah!
Aug, 2024
Bayli presented at Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP) Research Symposium. Great job, Bayli! Thank you for working with us this summer. Best of luck with your future endeavors and graduate school applications. We look forward to hearing your good news!
July, 2024
The Wang lab has been awarded an American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) for “Developing genetically engineered macrophages for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer”.
July, 2024
Sophie O’Keefe, a first-year graduate student from UVA’s BIMS program, joins the Wang Lab as a Rotation Student. Welcome, Sophie!
June, 2024
Bayli Locklear, an undergraduate from East Carolina University, joins the Wang Lab as a Summer Intern. Her research in our lab is supported by UVA Cancer Center’s Diversity in Cancer Research (DICR) program, funded by the American Cancer Society (ACS). Welcome, Bayli!
May, 2024
Dhillon Parikshak, a pre-medical student from UVA’s Class of 2026, joins the Wang Lab as an Undergraduate Researcher. Welcome, Dhillon!
May, 2024
Jun Lin joins the Wang Lab as a Senior Lab Specialist. Welcome, Jun!!
April, 2024
Marcus Jerryd Meade joins the Wang Lab as a Lab Technician. Welcome, Jerryd!!