Greehey CCRI Seminar Series: Weixing “Wilson” Zhao, PhD (UTHSA – Biochemistry and Structural Biology)
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Dr. Zhao earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from Peking University, China, and received postdoctoral training at Yale University, where he focused on understanding homology-directed repair of DNA double-strand breaks dependent on the tumor suppressors BRCA1 and BRCA2. Currently, as a new faculty at the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, Dr. Zhao’s research interest is to investigate the BRCA1/2 tumor suppressor networks in various related biological processes (i.e., DNA damage response, DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, transcriptional regulation and cellular senescence) and the molecular mechanisms underlying their pathogenic mutations that are associated with cancers and other diseases, to provide the foundation and impetus for developing new therapeutic regimens.