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Yemin Wang

ResearcherUniversity of British Columbia

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Yemin Wang

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
23 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Swi/Snf Arid1a Arid1b Chromatin-Remodelling Dedifferentiated Endometrial Cancer Epigenetic Reprogramming Drug Response Glucose

Latest papers

Immunological and prognostic impact of NRF2 in high grade serous ovarian cancer.
Genes and immunity · 2026 · senior author
Editorial: The foundational components and elements of plant foods for neurological nutrition and well-being.
Frontiers in nutrition · 2026 · senior author
SMARCA4 loss reprograms p300 chromatin occupancy to subvert p53-mediated transcriptional repression in ovarian small cell carcinoma.
Nature communications · 2026

All 49 publications

Latest funding

DICER1 tumour predisposition syndrome: dissecting the oncogenic mechanisms with a novel lineage-trackable genetically engineered mouse model
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,120,726
p300 histone acetyltransferase-dependency in SWI/SNF-deficient cancers: mechanisms and therapeutic implications
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,116,900
Leveraging Epigenetic Reprogramming for Targeted Therapy in ARID1A/ARID1B Dual-Deficient Cancers
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,143,675

All 5 grants and awards

49 publications.

Immunological and prognostic impact of NRF2 in high grade serous ovarian cancer.

Hamad SH, Katz C, Toma H, Murakami K, Bendjilali N, Zhu G, Shojaei H, Fang L, Leung S, Koebel M, Karaduman H, Abinader O, Mitra R, Krill L, Chu C, Warshal DP, Wang Y

Genes and immunity2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41435-026-00400-7 PMID: 42050327

Editorial: The foundational components and elements of plant foods for neurological nutrition and well-being.

Tang C, Li J, Wang Y

Frontiers in nutrition2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2026.1904762 PMID: 42483653

SMARCA4 loss reprograms p300 chromatin occupancy to subvert p53-mediated transcriptional repression in ovarian small cell carcinoma.

Aceto G, Liu K, Arabzadeh A, Tsai S, Xue Y, Monast A, Pilon V, Han M, Morin G, Pavlakis K, Fu L, Park M, Foulkes WD, Wang Y, Huang S

Nature communications2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74204-8 PMID: 42297809

Co-targeting cystathionine gamma-lyase and mTOR: a promising therapeutic strategy in clear cell ovarian cancer.

Wei L, El-Naggar AM, Li Y, Ding Y, Li E, Lam T, Wang Y, Turgu B, Huntsman DG

BMC cancer2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12885-026-16092-1 PMID: 42071199

Spatial single cell transcriptomic analysis informs tumor developmental hierarchy of DICER1 syndrome related sarcoma.

Kommoss FKF, Zhang JYH, Lynch BJ, Chen SY, Senz J, Moscovitz Y, Hill LA, Ma D, Scott RW, Bush J, Chen KS, Roth A, von Deimling A, Foulkes WD, Morin GB, Underhill TM, Wang Y, Huntsman DG

Nature communications2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70971-6 PMID: 41912509

Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas.

St Laurent JD, Xu GD, Ying AW, Gokbayrak B, Patil A, Paulo JA, Cervantes KS, Chen S, Feng WW, Sankar A, Samé Guerra DD, Qi J, Neel DS, Hornick JL, Kolin DL, Gygi SP, Hunstman DG, Wang Y, Kadoch C

Nature genetics2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02333-9 PMID: 41116019

Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas.

St Laurent JD, Xu GD, Ying AW, Gokbayrak B, Patil A, Paulo JA, Cervantes KS, Chen S, Feng WW, Sankar A, Guerra DDS, Qi J, Neel DS, Hornick JL, Kolin DL, Gygi SP, Hunstman DG, Wang Y, Kadoch C

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.13.681937 PMID: 41279405

SMARCA4 Loss Increases RNA Polymerase II Pausing and Elevates R-Loops to Inhibit BRCA1-Mediated Repair in Ovarian Cancer.

Zhu X, Fu Z, Aceto G, St-Germain J, Liu K, Arabzadeh A, Qi Y, Xue Y, Witkowski L, Graulich E, Steinberger J, Misirlioglu S, Bassani N, Sansal R, Yasmeen A, Morin G, Guo J, Monast A, Pilon V, Valachová A, Pavlakis K, Fu L, Gotlieb WH, McCluggage WG, Huntsman D, Bishop AJR, Levine DA, Park M, Wang Y, Raught B, Foulkes WD, Huang S

Cancer research2025

DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-3990 PMID: 40366633

Molecular subtyping of endometrial carcinoma cell lines uncovers subtype-specific targetable vulnerabilities.

Li ES, Ho R, Tao R, Choi YWY, Shin CY, Chen SY, Gokbayrak B, Senz J, Yao B, Johnston L, Martin SD, Yang E, Carey MS, Hennessy BT, Huntsman DG, Klein Geltink RI, Hoang L, Wang Y

NPJ precision oncology2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41698-025-01053-x PMID: 40707668

Loss of SMARCA4 Leads to Intron Retention and Generation of Tumor-Associated Antigens in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type.

Raupach EA, Hegde AM, Garcia-Mansfield K, Alcantara M, Rose DL, Halperin RF, Orlando KA, Lang JD, Sharma R, David-Dirgo V, Facista SJ, Moore R, Kofman R, Jensen ZN, Zismann VL, Karnezis AN, Wang Y, Bennett LB, Whitsett TG, Kortylewski M, Hendricks WPD, Huntsman DG, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Weissman BE, Trent JM, Pirrotte P

Cancer research2025

DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-0044 PMID: 40407709

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Yemin Wang

Research

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Immunological and prognostic impact of NRF2 in high grade serous ovarian cancer.

Editorial: The foundational components and elements of plant foods for neurological nutrition and well-being.

SMARCA4 loss reprograms p300 chromatin occupancy to subvert p53-mediated transcriptional repression in ovarian small cell carcinoma.

Co-targeting cystathionine gamma-lyase and mTOR: a promising therapeutic strategy in clear cell ovarian cancer.

Spatial single cell transcriptomic analysis informs tumor developmental hierarchy of DICER1 syndrome related sarcoma.

Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas.

Shifted assembly and function of mSWI/SNF family subcomplexes underlie targetable dependencies in dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas.

SMARCA4 Loss Increases RNA Polymerase II Pausing and Elevates R-Loops to Inhibit BRCA1-Mediated Repair in Ovarian Cancer.

Molecular subtyping of endometrial carcinoma cell lines uncovers subtype-specific targetable vulnerabilities.

Loss of SMARCA4 Leads to Intron Retention and Generation of Tumor-Associated Antigens in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type.

DICER1 tumour predisposition syndrome: dissecting the oncogenic mechanisms with a novel lineage-trackable genetically engineered mouse model

p300 histone acetyltransferase-dependency in SWI/SNF-deficient cancers: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

Leveraging Epigenetic Reprogramming for Targeted Therapy in ARID1A/ARID1B Dual-Deficient Cancers

Exploit the metabolic vulnerabilities in SWI/SNF-deficient cancer

Recurrent Somatic DICER1 Mutations: Functional Implication and Role in Oncogenesis

Frequent collaborators

Basile Tessier-Cloutier

Morag Park

Morag Park

Sidong Huang

Martin Gleave

Yuzhuo Wang

Martin Hirst

Brian Raught

David Huntsman

Anne-Marie Mes-Masson

Christian Steidl