Zhining Wang, Ph.D.

Health Science Administrator

  • Current Role

    Current Role

    I am a subject matter expert on bioinformatics and cancer genomics. As a health science administrator, I serve as a federal lead for a few Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) projects, focusing on data harmonization and sharing. I will also serve as a CRDC liaison to NCI’s Genomic Data Commons.

    I am a certified Contracting Officer’s Representative level three (COR III). I am also a member of the following NCI or NIH committee/working groups: NCI Data Management and Sharing working group member (Genomics and other Omics Subgroup), NCI IITAG (voting member), NCI CMI data ecosystem implementation team, and NCI CRDC.

  • Projects

    Projects

    Stylized image of a cloud showing repositories of data represented by circles with small icons hovering over top. The repositories include canine, imaging, genomic, and other types of data.
    Cancer Research Data Commons
    Connects researchers with data sets and tools to analyze large-scale cancer research data in the cloud.
  • Publications

    Publications

    View Zhining’s PubMed Summary

    Featured Publications

    Analysis of Germline-driven Ancestry-associated Gene Expression in Cancers. STAR Protocols, 2022.

    The NCI Genomic Data Commons. Nature Genetics, 2021.

    Pan-cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes. Nature, 2020.

  • Background

    Background

    Education

    • Ph.D., Genetics, University of Idaho
    • M.S., Computer Science, Southeastern University, Washington, D.C.
    • M.S., Genetics, Zhejiang University, China
    • B.S., Agronomy, Zhejiang University, China

    Previous Work

    • Biomedical Informatics Specialist, Center for Cancer Genomics, NCI
    • Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Henry M. Jackson Foundation

    Recent Awards

    • 2017 NIH Director’s Award, for work with NCI’s Genomic Data Commons
    • 2014 NIH Director’s Award, for work with The Cancer Genome Atlas