Lu Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor @USC | Postdoc with Joe Gleeson | PhD with YeGuang Chen | Focus on neurological disorders and brain organoids | Opinions are my own

[Yangfei Xiang @Yangfei_Lab]

We are pleased to share our latest progress in human neural organoids, recently published in Cell Stem Cell @CellStemCell. https://t.co/xwYyJDskwm

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Congrats Harry! @HarryKiv

[Joseph G. Gleeson @jogleeson_ucsd]

Congrats @SimonsFdn 2025 Fellows-to-Faculty Awardees, especially @HarryKiv from @jogleeson_ucsd lab (red). Harry was selected based on his proposal to map origins of neural crest derived neurons in #autism relevant conditions. https://t.co/Qwzgq2djsu

[Stem Cell Podcast @stemcellpodcast]

Dr. @ErinLWang and a team in Dr. @JoGleeson_UCSD's lab generated a brain #organoid atlas from patients with neurodevelopmental disorders. 🗺️

Read the @CellStemCell article: https://t.co/HFTFAD4hRq
Learn more in this week's episode: https://t.co/hMbd02QRbO

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

@emukamel @jogleeson_ucsd Thank you, Eran and Junhao!

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Grateful for a long journey of joyful collaborations with @emukamel, Junhao Li, Yuji Nakamura (UCSD) & students Yang Liu, Kevin Camey @USCNGP. Huge thanks to Joe @jogleeson_ucsd for his generous support & training!!

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Thrilled to share our new paper in @CellStemCell! We present a brain organoid atlas for NDDs, integrating hBO phenotypes, transcriptomics, WES, and brain imaging. We hope this resource inspires new studies and therapies for NDDs!

[Joseph G. Gleeson @jogleeson_ucsd]

Check out our new resource paper @CellStemCell, where we present a brain organoid atlas of human neurodevelopmental disorders. Surprising was that nearly all patients had abnormal organoids. The challenge was aligning defects to clinical. https://t.co/0YtGTd4Dwb

[Jonathan Kipnis 🟦 @jonykipnis]

Skull derived immune cells in brain tumors of patients... Therapeutic implications could be major, once we figure out how to manipulate skull bone marrow and its associated immune cells || Cranioencephalic functional lymphoid units in glioblastoma https://t.co/26I9n92c6A

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

@jogleeson_ucsd @CIRMnews @KeckMedicineUSC @USCStemCell Thank you, Joe!

[Laurent Nguyen @neuroliege]

Massively parallel in vivo Perturb-seq reveals cell-type-specific transcriptional networks in cortical development: Cell https://t.co/5fzHhPDfP2

[Laurent Nguyen @neuroliege]

Modeling blood-brain barrier formation and cerebral cavernous malformations in human PSC-derived organoids: Cell Stem Cell https://t.co/jDaleZQRWY

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Congrats 🍾🎉!!

[CCMB @ USC @CCMB_USC]

New publication in Cell Stem Cell! 🎉
"Vascular architecture regulates mesenchymal stromal cell heterogeneity via P53-PDGF signaling in the mouse incisor"
https://t.co/MFPYmn82RV

[Juan Melero-Martin @MeleroMartinLab]

Our latest @Nature paper is out! We show that transplanting mitochondria into endothelial cells boosts their ability to form blood vessels in ischemic tissues, with mitophagy as the key mechanism. A potential game-changer for vascular cell therapies. https://t.co/ViscFIc9sv

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Congratulations! 🍾

[Zhongwei Li @LiLab_Kidney]

In our new Resource Article @CellStemCell we describe an expandable nephron progenitor cell-based kidney organoid platform with broad applications. Unlimited supply of human nephron progenitor cells makes us one step closer to making a synthetic kidney for transplantation.

[Laurent Nguyen @neuroliege]

Control of neuronal excitation–inhibition balance by BMP–SMAD1 signalling | Nature https://t.co/KyKUfaJciL

[Rockefeller University @RockefellerUniv]

Did you know that Mary Beth Hatten (@khats97) was the first woman to be named head of a laboratory at Rockefeller? Watch her discuss her life and work in this interview from our #oralhistory project.
https://t.co/1hz0oETjFO

[FrezzaLab @FrezzaLab]

Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex | Science https://t.co/anqJqyv9KG

[Borrell Lab @BorrellLab]

Multiple parallel cell lineages in the developing mammalian cerebral cortex | Science Advances https://t.co/vmGx9Toysr

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

@GuemezGamboaLab @NatureComms @L_Rylaarsdam @eleanorpope_ @pacs1foundation @NIH_NINDS Congratulations!🎊🎉🍾

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

Beautiful work!!

[Orly Reiner @orly_reiner]

Exciting breakthrough: A new microfluid-based human pluripotent stem cell model now allows researchers to accurately model both the rostral-caudal and the dorsal-ventral features of early human central nervous system development. https://t.co/zhCblLgRf7

[Lu Wang, PhD @ErinLWang]

@jogleeson_ucsd Congratulations, Yuji!