03/2018 - current Research Associate, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona CA
01/2017 - 12/2017 Postdoc Fellow, College of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD
2016 Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
2009 M.S. in Modeling and Simulation, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA
2007 B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
1. Wenjuan Jiang; Wesley M. Botello-Smith; Jerome J. Lacroix; Yun Luo. Investigating the mechanical perturbation of asymmetric lipid bilayers on mechanosensitive Piezo ion channels through multiscale approach, under preparation, 2019.
2. Chen Xie; Wenjuan Jiang; Jerome J. Lacroix; Yun Luo; Jijun Hao. Molecular Mechanism for Activin A-induced Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling, under review, Biochemical Journal, 2019.
3. Guomin Wang, Wenjuan Jiang, Shi Mo, Lingxia Xie, Liangsheng Hu, Qingdong Ruan, Kaiwei Tang, Babak Mehrjou, Mengting Liu, Jie Zhuang, Huaiyu Wang, Guosong Wu, Paul K. Chu. Non-Leaching Antibacterial Concept Demonstrated by In Situ Construction of 2D Nanoflakes on Magnesium, Advanced Science 2019 (DOI:10.1002/advs.201902089)
4. Yinghui Zhu, Xin He, Yi-Chun Lin, Haojie Dong, Lei Zhang, Xianwei Chen, Zhihao Wang, Yudao Shen, Min Li, Hanying Wang, Jie Sun, Le Xuan Nguyen, Han Zhang, Wenjuan Jiang, Yanzhong Yang, Jianjun Chen, Markus Müschen, Chun-Wei Chen, Marina Y Konopleva, Weili Sun, Jian Jin, Nadia Carlesso, Guido Marcucci, Yun Luo, Ling Li. Targeting PRMT1-Mediated FLT3 Methylation Disrupts Maintenance of MLL-rearranged Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Blood, Journal of the American Society of Hematology 2019. (DOI:10.1182/blood.2019002457)
5. Xin He, Yinghui Zhu, Yi-Chun Lin, Min Li, Juan Du, Haojie Dong, Jie Sun, Lei Zhu, Hanying Wang, Zonghui Ding, Lei Zhang, Lianjun Zhang, Dandan Zhao, Zhihao Wang, Herman Wu, Han Zhang, Wenjuan Jiang, Yang Xu, Jian Jin, Yudao Shen, Jeff Perry, Xinyang Zhao, Bin Zhang, Songbai Liu, Sheng-Li Xue, Binghui Shen, Chun-Wei Chen, Jianjun Chen, Samer Khaled, Ya-Huei Kuo, Guido Marcucci, Yun Luo, Ling Li. PRMT1-mediated FLT3 arginine methylation promotes maintenance of FLT3-ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Blood, Journal of the American Society of Hematology 2019. (DOI:10.1182/blood.2019001282)
6. Vincent Ustash; Sirish Lakkaraju; Sunhwan Jo; Wenbo Yu; Wenjuan Jiang; Alexander MacKerell; Optimization and Evaluation of the Site-Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) as a tool for target-based ligand optimization, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2019.(DOI:10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00210)
7. Wesley M. Botello-Smith; Wenjuan Jiang; Han Zhang; Alper D. Ozkan; Christine N. Pham, Yun Luo; Jerome J. Lacroix. A molecular Mechanism for the Chemical Activation of the Mechanosensitive Piezo1 Channel, just accepted to Nature Communications, 2019.
8. Han Zhang, Wenjuan Jiang, Payal Chatterjee, Yun Luo. Ranking Reversible Covalent Drugs: From Free Energy Perturbation to Fragment Maps, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2019. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.8b00959)
9. Cheng, Huimin; Linhares, Brian; Yu, Wenbo; Cardenas, Mariano; Ai, Yong; Jiang, Wenjuan; Melnick, Ari; MacKerell, Alex; Cierpicki, Tomasz; Xue, Fengtian. Thiourea-Based Inhibitors of the BCL6 BTB Domain via NMR-Based Fragment Screening and Computer-Aided Drug Design, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2018 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00040)
10. Wenjuan Jiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Dandan Guo, Juntao Luo, and Shikha Nangia, “Drug-Specific Design of Telodendrimer Architecture for Effective Doxorubicin Encapsulation” J. Phys. Chem. B, 120(36), 9766-9777, 2016. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b06070)
11. Reem Eldawud, Manuela Reitzig, Jörg Opitz, Yon Rojansakul, Wenjuan Jiang, Shikha Nangia, and Cerasela Zoica Dinu. “Combinatorial approaches to evaluate nanodiamond uptake and induced cellular fate”, Nanotechnology, 27(8), 085107, 2016. (DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/8/085107)
12. Wenjuan Jiang, Juntao Luo, and Shikha Nangia, “Multiscale approach to investigate self-assembly of telodendrimer based nanocarriers for anticancer drug-delivery”, Langmuir, 31, 4270-4280, 2015.(DOI: 10.1021/la503949b)
13. Huilin Ma, Flaviyan Jerome Irudayanathan, Wenjuan Jiang, and Shikha Nangia, “Simulating Gram-Negative Bacterial Outer Membrane: A Coarse Grain Model”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 119, 14668−14682, 2015. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07122)
14. Vamsi Mantena, Wenjuan Jiang, Jiang Li and Rick McKenzie, “Prostate cancer biomarker identification using MALDI-MS data: Initial results.” Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, LiSSA, 116 −119, 2009.(DOI: 10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906723)
(Presentation)Wenjuan Jiang, Wesley M. Botello-Smith; Han Zhang; Jerome J. Lacroix; Yun Luo, Investigating the mechanical perturbation of asymmetric lipid bilayers on mechanosensitive Piezo ion channels through multiscale approach, ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition, San Diego, CA (August 25-29, 2019)
(Presentation)Wenjuan Jiang, Han Zhang, and Yun Luo, Permeation of Biological Molecules Through a Connexin Channel, 14th Annual Research Symposium Keck Graduate Institute, Pomona, CA (January 11, 2019)
(Poster)Wenjuan Jiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Juntao Luo, and Shikha Nangia, Multiscale Approach to Design drug-specific Nanocarriers for Anticancer Drug Delivery. 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA (August 21-25, 2016)
(Poster)Wenjuan Jiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Juntao Luo, and Shikha Nangia, Multiscale Approach to Design drug-specific Nanocarriersfor Anticancer Drug Delivery. Nunan Research Day, Syracuse, NY (April 5, 2016)
(Poster)Wenjuan Jiang and Shikha Nangia, Transport across the blood-brain barrier: A kinetic Monte Carlo approach. Albany Conversation, Albany, NY (June 9-13, 2015)
(Presentation)Wenjuan Jiang, Xiaoyi Wang, Juntao Luo, and Shikha Nangia, Multiscale Molecular Dynamics for Designing Optimal Anticancer Drug Delivery Nanocarriers. AlChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (Nov 18, 2014)
(Poster)Wenjuan Jiang, and Shikha Nangia, Transport across the Blood-Brain Barrier: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach. Stevenson Biomaterials Poster, Syracuse, NY (October 16, 2014)
(Poster)Wenjuan Jiang, Juntao Luo and Shikha Nangia, Investigating Telodendrimer-based Cancer Drug Delivery Micelles, Nunan Research Day, Syracuse, NY (April 3, 2013)
(Presentation)Wenjuan Jiang, Jiang Li and Rick McKenzie, Prostate Cancer Biomarker identification: A Comparative Study", Capstone Conference, VMASC, Suffolk, VA (April 9, 2009)
2016 Syracuse Biomaterials Institute Graduate Fellowship
2016 The Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students, American Chemical Society
2014 Third Place, Stevenson Biomaterials Poster Competition, Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse NY
2009 Third Place, Capstone Conference Medical Competition, Suffolk VA
2003 Xi’an Jiaotong University Freshman Scholarship