Xiuli Wang, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation at City of Hope, received her Ph.D. at the University of Oslo in Norway in 1999 and her M.D. at Inner Mongolia Medical University in China in 1983. She received her postdoctoral training at USC at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the department of immunology/bone marrow transplantation. She joined the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope in 2006, becoming an associate research professor in 2013 and a full research professor in 2017.
Xiuli's research interests include immunotherapy, vaccines, and CAR T cell therapy in multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and acute lymphoid leukemia. She recently secured a $3.8 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to explore using CAR T cell therapy to kill HIV.