Timothy C. Wang

Dr. Timothy C. Wang is the Silberberg Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology. He received his MD from Columbia University, followed by clinical training at Washington University and Harvard/MGH. He was on the Harvard faculty for 11 years, and Associate Chief of GI at MGH prior to relocation to the University of Massachusetts in 2000 and then Columbia University in 2004 as Division Chief. His main interest has been in murine models of gastric cancer, and the role of stem cells in inflammation-associated cancer. Dr. Wang's laboratory reported that gastric cancer in murine models can originate from bone marrow-derived stem cells. More recently, his group has identified markers for human gastric cancer stem cells, and also demonstrated that gastric cancer can arise from resident tissue stem cells. As the leader of the Columbia University Tumor Microenvironment Network, he has investigated the importance of stromal cells and the stem cell niche in governing stem cell differentiation, and how this niche is altered in chronic inflammatory states that predispose to cancer. He is currently investigating the role of BM-derived fibroblasts and myeloid cells in carcinogenesis. Dr. Wang is a recipient of the AGA Funderberg Gastric Cancer Award and is the Editor of the first textbook on gastric cancer, The Biology of Gastric Cancer (Springer 2009). He is the Chair of the GCMB NIH study section, Chair of the AGA Future Trends Committee, Associate Editor for Gastroenterology, and Editor in Chief of Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology. He is the author of more than 160 original peer-reviewed publications