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I am a PhD student at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Publications

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  • Xiao L, Duan R, Liu W, Zhang C, Ma X, et al. Tumor-specific CD8+ Tc9 1 cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control antigen-lost tumors. Nat Cancer. 2025. doi:10.1038/s43018-025-00935-0
  • Cui H, Nie H, Wang C, Zhang N, Wang Y, Liu W, et al. Phenotype-based classification of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy undergoing myomectomy. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jacbts.2024.12.016
  • Liu W, Zhao Z. Scupa: Single-cell unified polarization assessment of immune cells using the single-cell foundation model. Bioinformatics. 2025. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf090
  • Saito Y, Xiao Y, Yao J, Li Y, Liu W, et al. Targeting a chemo-induced adaptive signaling circuit confers therapeutic vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer. Cell Discov. 2024;10(1):109. doi:10.1038/s41421-024-00720-w
  • Strickland LN#, Liu W#, Hussein U, et al. Preventive Treatment with a CD73 Small Molecule Inhibitor Enhances Immune Surveillance in K-Ras Mutant Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia. Cancer Prev Res. 2024. doi:10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-24-0200
  • Liu W, Li W, Zhao Z. Single-cell transcriptomics reveals pre-existing COVID-19 vulnerability factors in lung cancer patients. Mol Cancer Res. 2024 Mar 1;22(3):240-253. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-23-0692.
  • Sheng Y, Wu L, Chang Y, Liu W, Tao M, Chen X, Zhang X, Li B, Zhang N, Ye D, Zhang C, Zhu D, Zhao H, Chen A, Chen H, Song J. Tomo-seq identifies NINJ1 as a potential target for anti-inflammatory strategy in thoracic aortic dissection. BMC Med. 2023 Oct 20;21(1):396. doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-03077-1.
  • Liu W, Shomron N. Analysis of MicroRNA Regulation and Gene Expression Variability in Single Cell Data. J Pers Med. 2022;12(10):1750. doi:10.3390/jpm12101750
  • Liu W, Ye X, An Z, Zhao Z. The challenges and opportunities of scRNA-seq in COVID-19 research and clinical translation. Virol J. 2022;19(1):217. doi: 10.1186/s12985-022-01923-x.
  • Liu W, Jia J, Dai Y, Chen W, Pei G, Yan Q, Zhao Z. Delineating COVID-19 immunological features using single-cell RNA sequencing. The Innovation. 2022;3(5):100289. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100289
  • Dai Y, Yu H, Yan Q, Li B, Liu A, Liu W, Jiang X, Kim Y, Guo Y, Zhao Z. Drug-Target Network Study Reveals the Core Target-Protein Interactions of Various COVID-19 Treatments. Genes. 2022;13(7):1210. doi:10.3390/genes13071210
  • Liu W, Shomron N. Analysis of microRNA Regulation in Single Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2243:339-354. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-1103-6_18
  • Hu Z#, Liu W#, Hua X#, Chen X#, Chang Y, Hu Y, Xu Z, Song J. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Atlas of Different Human Cardiac Arteries Identifies Cell Types Associated With Vascular Physiology. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021;41(4):1408-1427. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.315373.
  • Liu W, Zhang X. Single-cell alternative splicing analysis reveals dominance of single transcript variant. Genomics. 2020;112(3):2418-2425. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.01.014

# Co-first author

Softwares

  • Scupa: An R package for single-cell unified polarization assessment of immune cells
  • GAN-DP: A StyleGAN2-based method to create semantic image-drived phenotypes
  • tomoda: An R/Bioconductor package for tomo-seq data analysis
  • sc-miReg: Analysis of miRNA Regulation in Single Cells
  • scRIN: Measuring the mRNA integrity in single-cell sequencing data