Molecular Signaling and Epigenetics

Cun-Yu Wang, DDS, PhD is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, the Dr. No-Hee Park Endowed Chair in Dentistry, and the Chair of the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry. Dr. Wang is the first person to hold the Dr. No-Hee Park Endowed Chair in Dentistry.

Dr. Wang works in three major areas related to human health and medicine: 1) Molecular signaling, epigenetics and therapeutics of oral, head and neck Cancer; 2) Molecular regulation of oral and systemic inflammation and infection; and 3) Molecular and epigenetic control of adult stem cell properties, skeletal aging and craniofacial regeneration. He have made a landmark discovery on the regulation of cancer cell death by the transcription factor NF-κB, which was cited in one of ten important discoveries in 1996 by Science magazine. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in the peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Cancer Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Medicine. He has won numerous awards, including the NIH MERIT Award and Distinguished Alumni Award of Peking University Health Science Center. He serves as an Honorary Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Oral Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine as a member in 2011 and to the Chinese Academy of Engineering as a foreign member in 2013.