2026 Yuzhuo Wang: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	92	11442	10755	461	435	577	26239

Overview

Yuzhuo Wang is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering. Their work bridges multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's research covers several prominent main topics, with particular focus on Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes, RNA modifications and cancer, Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications.

Yuzhuo Wang has authored numerous papers published in a variety of venues, frequently contributing to Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, SSRN Electronic Journal, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Notable recent papers include:

Lactic Acid and an Acidic Tumor Microenvironment suppress Anticancer Immunity, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Targeting SWI/SNF ATPases in enhancer-addicted prostate cancer, 2021, Nature
Nanoparticles in tumor microenvironment remodeling and cancer immunotherapy, 2024, Journal of Hematology & Oncology
Long non-coding RNAs in the doxorubicin resistance of cancer cells, 2021, Cancer Letters
Molecular events in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development, 2021, Nature Reviews Urology

Frequent co-authors of Yuzhuo Wang include Martin Gleave, Dong Lin, Colin C. Collins, Yingjie Li, and Francesco Crea.

Best Publications

Molecular Characterization of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer and Identification of New Drug Targets

Himisha Beltran;David S. Rickman;Kyung Park;Sung Suk Chae

954
Citations
Dynamics of genomic clones in breast cancer patient xenografts at single-cell resolution

Peter Eirew;Peter Eirew;Adi Steif;Adi Steif;Jaswinder Khattra;Jaswinder Khattra;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha

684
Citations
Androgen receptor gene aberrations in circulating cell-free DNA: biomarkers of therapeutic resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer

Arun A Azad;Stanislav V Volik;Alexander W Wyatt;Anne Haegert

500
Citations
Role of the stromal microenvironment in carcinogenesis of the prostate.

Gerald R. Cunha;Simon W. Hayward;Y.Z. Wang;William A. Ricke

477
Citations
The x(c)- cystine/glutamate antiporter: a potential target for therapy of cancer and other diseases.

Maisie Lo;Yu-Zhuo Wang;Peter W. Gout

431
Citations
Malignant Transformation in a Nontumorigenic Human Prostatic Epithelial Cell Line

Simon W. Hayward;Yuzhuo Wang;Mei Cao;Yun Kit Hom

414
Citations
Hormonal, cellular, and molecular regulation of normal and neoplastic prostatic development.

Gerald R Cunha;William A Ricke;Axel Thomson;Paul C Marker

407
Citations
Cell differentiation lineage in the prostate

Yuzhuo Wang;Simon W. Hayward;Mei Cao;Kristina A. Thayer

382
Citations
The Master Neural Transcription Factor BRN2 Is an Androgen Receptor-Suppressed Driver of Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer.

Jennifer L Bishop;Daksh Thaper;Daksh Thaper;Sepideh Vahid;Sepideh Vahid;Alastair Davies

365
Citations
High Fidelity Patient-Derived Xenografts for Accelerating Prostate Cancer Discovery and Drug Development

Dong Lin;Alexander W. Wyatt;Hui Xue;Yuwei Wang

365
Citations
Role of stroma in carcinogenesis of the prostate.

Gerald R. Cunha;Simon W. Hayward;Y. Z. Wang

346
Citations
Cancer-generated lactic acid: a regulatory, immunosuppressive metabolite?

Stephen Yiu Chuen Choi;Colin C Collins;Colin C Collins;Peter W Gout;Yuzhuo Wang;Yuzhuo Wang;Yuzhuo Wang

342
Citations
Nkx3.1 Mutant Mice Recapitulate Early Stages of Prostate Carcinogenesis

Minjung J. Kim;Rajula Bhatia-Gaur;Whitney A. Banach-Petrosky;Nishita Desai

317
Citations
Whole-Exome Sequencing of Metastatic Cancer and Biomarkers of Treatment Response.

Himisha Beltran;Himisha Beltran;Kenneth Eng;Kenneth Eng;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Alexandros Sigaras

300
Citations
Translational Activation of HIF1α by YB-1 Promotes Sarcoma Metastasis

Amal M. El-Naggar;Chansey J. Veinotte;Hongwei Cheng;Thomas G.P. Grunewald

296
Citations
YB-1 regulates stress granule formation and tumor progression by translationally activating G3BP1.

Syam Prakash Somasekharan;Syam Prakash Somasekharan;Amal El-Naggar;Amal El-Naggar;Gabriel Leprivier;Hongwei Cheng

278
Citations
Prostatic hormonal carcinogenesis is mediated by in situ estrogen production and estrogen receptor alpha signaling

William A Ricke;Stephen John McPherson;Joseph John Bianco;Gerald R Cunha

270
Citations
Intrinsic BET inhibitor resistance in SPOP -mutated prostate cancer is mediated by BET protein stabilization and AKT–mTORC1 activation

Pingzhao Zhang;Dejie Wang;Yu Zhao;Shancheng Ren

265
Citations
MicroRNAs associated with metastatic prostate cancer.

Akira Watahiki;Yuwei Wang;James Morris;Kristopher Dennis

262
Citations
The Placental Gene PEG10 Promotes Progression of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

Shusuke Akamatsu;Alexander W. Wyatt;Dong Lin;Summer Lysakowski

258
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Collins University of British Columbia

Martin E. Gleave University of British Columbia

Ladan Fazli University of British Columbia

Gerald R. Cunha University of California, San Francisco

Himisha Beltran Harvard University

Amina Zoubeidi University of British Columbia

Simon W. Hayward NorthShore University HealthSystem

Cheryl D. Helgason BC Cancer Research Centre

Alexander W. Wyatt University of British Columbia

Mark A. Rubin University of Bern

External Links

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