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Xujing Wang, Ph.D.

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Program Director: Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases
Data science and artificial intelligence (AI); computation modeling; integrative genomics; network biology; genotype-phenotype relationship

Responsibilities & Activities

As the program director for data science and computational biomodelling, I manage a research portfolio of projects that develop methods and tools that enable the utilization of data science in, that utilize high-throughput (Big) data in, and that develop computational, or joint computational and laboratory approaches to model biological processes relevant to, diabetes and metabolic disease research, or any other area of disease or biology of relevance to the DEM mission.

I am also the program director for HIRN-CBDS, HIRN-HPAP, dkNET, and co-program director for TEDDY.

Research Programs

Bioengineering, Biotechnology, & Imaging as applied to Diabetes, Metabolic, & Endocrine Diseases
Functional and metabolic imaging in adipose, pancreas and other metabolic organs

Diabetes Genetics & Genomics
Genetic mechanisms underlying type 1 and type 2 diabetes and how genetic and epigenetic variation influences the metabolism of therapeutics.

Endocrine Pancreas
Biology, development, and function of the endocrine pancreas and clinical studies on islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes treatment.

Metabolism, Energy Balance & Obesity
Energy balance, thermogenesis, and the control of metabolism by the autonomic nervous system in obesity and diabetes.

Select Experience

Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008-2013

Assistant to Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2000-2008

Last Reviewed March 2025