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  Hong Wang, PhD
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Education

BS, Peking University, 1988 
MPH, Peking University, 1994 
DrPH, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2004 

Research Interests

Clinical trials, survival analysis, statistical applications in biomedical field.

Selected Publications

Epperly MW., Rugo R, Cao S, Wang H, Franicola D, Goff JP, Shen , Zhang X, Wiktor-Brown D, Engelward B, and Greenberger JS.  Investigation of the effects of aging on homologous recombination in long-term bone marrow cultures.  In Vivo, (in press).

Wang W, Edington HD, Rao UN, Jukic DM, Radfar A, Wang H, Kirkwood JM.  Effects of high-dose IFNalpha2b on regional lymph node metastases of human melanoma: modulation of STAT5, FOXP3, and IL-17. Clin Cancer Res. 2008 Dec 15;14(24):8314-20. (PMID: 19088050)

Epperly MW, Smith T, Wang H, Schlesselman J, Franicola D, Greenberger JS. Modulation of radiation-induced life shortening by systemic intravenous MnSOD-plasmid liposome gene therapy. Radiation Research 2008; Oct;170(4):437-43. (PMID: 19024650)

Niu Y., Epperly M., Shen H., Smith T., Wang H., Greenberger J. Intraesophageal MnSOD-Plasmid Liposome Administration Enhances Engraftment and Self-Renewal Capacity of Bone Marrow Derived Progenitors of Esophageal Squamous Epithelium. Gene Therapy, 2008 Mar; 15(5): 347-56.

Wang W., Edington H., Rao U., Jukic D., Wang H., Shipe-Spotloe J. and Kirkwood J. STAT3 as a Biomarker of Progression in Atypical Nevi of Patients with Melanoma: Dose-Response Effects of Systemic IFNα Therapy. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2008 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print].

Epperly M, Jin S, Nie S, Cao S, Zhang X, Franicola D, Wang H, Fink MP, Greenberger JS. Ethyl pyruvate, a potentially effective mitigator of damage after total-body irradiation. Radiation Research. 2007 Nov;168(5):552-9.

Epperly MW, Epperly LD, Niu Y, Wang H, Zhang X, Franicola D, Greenberger JS. Overexpression of the MnSOD transgene product protects cryopreserved bone marrow hematopoietic progenitor cells from ionizing radiation. Radiation Research.2007 Nov;168(5):560-6.

Epperly MW, Franicola D, Zhang X, Nie S, Wang H, Bahnson AB, Shields DS, Goff JP, Shen H, Greenberger JS. Reduced Irradiation Pulmonary Fibrosis And Stromal Cell Migration In Smad3-/- Marrow Chimeric Mice. In Vivo. 2006 Sep-Oct; 20(5):573-82.

Logan B., Wang H., Zhang M . Pairwise Multiple Comparison Adjustment in Survival Analysis. Statistics in Medicine. 24 (16): 2509-2523, Aug 30 2005.

Epperly M., Goff J., Zhang X., Niu Y., Sheilds D., Wang H., Shen H., Franicola D., Bahnson A., Nie S., Greenberger E., Greenberger J. Increased Radioresistance, G 2 /M Checkpoint Inhibition, and Impaired Migration of Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Lines Derived from Smad3-/- Mice. Radiation Research 165 (6): 671-7, 2006.

Bahnson A., Athanassiou C., Koebler D., Qian L., Shields D., Yu H., Goff J., Wang H ., Cheng T., Houck R. and Cowsert L.. Automated Measurement of Cell Motility and Proliferation. BMC Cell Biology, 6:19, 2005.

Wang H . On the Confidence Limits for the Mean of Exponential Distribution in the Life Test with Mixed Truncation. Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 12 , 348-354, 1996.

Chen J. and Wang H. On the Confidence Limits for the mean of Exponential Distribution in the Life Tests with fixed Stopping Time. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety . International Academic Publishers, 307-311, 1994.

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Suite 325 Sterling Plaza
201 North Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Telephone: 412-383-1588
Facsimile: 412-383-1535
Email: wang@upci.pitt.edu
© 2001-2007
Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

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