📖 Education

🎓 Degree

• Ph.D. in Biology, 2022-2028 (expected), MOE Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  • Major: Metabolism and Diseases, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Programme: Successive postgraduate and doctoral programme
  • Research interests: Cancer Research; Bioinformatics; Human Microbiome
  • Academic advisor: Dr. Zhao Zhang

• B.Sc. in Biology, 2016-2021, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

  • Major: Bioinformatics
  • Graduation project: Benchmarking imputation algorithms in scRNA-seq analysis
  • Academic advisor: Dr. Qianqian Shi

🏛️ Visiting and exchanging

• Visiting Student, 2025, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  • Programme:
    • Genetics and Developmental Biology
    • Evolutionary and Biological Big Data
  • Oral presentation topic:
    • Intratumour microbiome in gastric cancer (The First Prize)
    • bacNeo: a computational toolkit for bacteria-derived neoantigen identification (The Second Prize)

• Visiting Student, 2019, School of Life Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • Programme: Biological and Biomedical Science Programme
  • Research topic: The mechanism and clinical applications of siRNAs (The Second Prize)

📑 Publication

Marks: Co-first author† and corresponding author#.

• As the first and co-first author

  • Shen Y.†, Sun Q.†, Wang Y.†, …, & Luan C.#, Targeting CTGF+ cancer-associated fibroblasts disrupts tumor–stroma crosstalk in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, PNAS 123, 36 (2026).
  • Wang Y., …, Zhang Z.# bacNeo: A Computational Toolkit for Identifying Bacteria-Derived Neoantigens in Human Cancers. iMetaMed e70040 (2026).
  • Fu, Y.†, Wang Y.†, Chai Z.T., … Zhang, Z.#, Characterization of Cancer Hallmark Enhancer RNA Uncovers Novel Strategies for Precision Oncology. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics qzag037 (2026).
  • Wang Y., …, Zhang Z.#, & Han L.# Characterization of Tumor Antigens from Multi-omics Data: Computational Approaches and Resources. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics qzaf001 (2025).
  • Yuan L.†, Pan L.†, Wang Y.†, …, Zhang Z.#, & Cheng X.# Characterization of the landscape of the intratumoral microbiota reveals that Streptococcus anginosus increases the risk of gastric cancer initiation and progression. Cell Discov 10, 117 (2024).
  • Wang Y., …, & Zhang Z.# Enhancer RNA (eRNA) in Human Diseases. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 23, 11582 (2022).

• As contributing author

  • Hu W.†, Jiang W†, …, Wang Y., …, & Zhang Z.#, Comprehensive characterization of transposable element expression reveals regulatory circuitry and clinical implications in cancers. Science Advances, 2026, 12(42): eaec9550.
  • Zhang C.†, Chen Y.†, Chen S., Wang Y., …, & Zhang Z.# Characterization of an Enhancer RNA Signature Reveals Treatment Strategies for Improving Immunotherapy Efficacy in Cancer. Cancer Res 3, 85 (2025).

💼 Conference

• Cell Symposia: Immune regulation of o rganismal homeostasis-Keeping the middle path 2026
  • Poster presenter
• The 16th National Symposium on Gene Function and Expression Regulation 2025
  • Attendee
• iMeta Conference 2025
  • Oral presenter (The First Prize - Graduate Forum)
  • Poster presenter (The Second Prize)
• Cell Symposia: Hallmarks of Cancer 2024
  • Attendee
• National Conference on Bioinformatics and System Biology 2023
  • Attendee

🏆 Honors

• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, 2025-2026
• Excellent Student, Fudan University, 2024-2025
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, 2024-2025
• Third Prize in the 6th Bioinformatics Design and Skills Competition，Huazhong Agricultural University, 2020
• Third-class Scholarship, Huazhong Agricultural University, 2019-2020
• Merit Student, Huazhong Agricultural University, 2019-2020
• Second Prize in 2019 Five-Minute Research Presentation Competition (National Final for Undergraduates), Ministry of Education, 2019