Tao Wang Laboratory
Tao Wang, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
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Areas of Research
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Cancer Genomics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
- Immunity
- Immunology
- Immunotherapy
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Single-Cell Genomics
- Structural Biology
- Tumor Heterogeneity
- Tumor Microenvironment
The Tao Wang Lab is a top artificial intelligence (AI)-for-science lab at UT MD Anderson, specializing in the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions for immunology discovery. Our interdisciplinary research integrates machine learning, statistics, medicine and biology to extract meaningful insights from high-dimensional biomedical data. Our work focuses on leveraging public and in-house high-throughput datasets to uncover mechanistic insights into human diseases, particularly immunological disorders, with implications for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. We apply cutting-edge AI techniques to model T/B cell antigens and receptor sequences at the molecular level, analyze single cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics data at the cellular level and integrate genomics with electronic medical records at the patient level. By pioneering AI methodologies for multi-scale immunological data, our ultimate goal is to transform patient care through improved disease prediction, treatment personalization and therapeutics discovery.
Recent Publications
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Interpretable AI Model Reveals Spatial Codes of Cell Recruitment in Tissues
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2026
Tao Wang Lab Publications
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Lab News
July 2026
Jia Yao's SPACER paper is accepted at Nature Biomedical Engineering
Aug 2026
We welcome Jiayi Li and Parth Baware to join our lab
June 2026
We warmly welcome Harrison Cohen, a University of North Carolina undergraduate student, to join the Tao Wang Lab for the summer
June 2026
We warmly welcome Woojung Flora Yi, a CURE/UPWARDS summer trainee who is joining the Tao Wang Lab for the summer
April 2026
Yi and Yuqiu's manuscript on pMTnet-v2 was accepted for publication at Nature Communications
March 2026
Yinglu's commentary was accepted for publication at Science Immunology
February 2026
Bing Song will join Indiana University School of Medicine as an assistant professor
February 2026
Yue Xuan will join the Tao Wang Lab as a Ph.D. student from the UT MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
November 2025
Dr. Tao Wang is awarded the Cancer Bioengineering Collaborative FY26 Seed Program Grant, together with Dr. Cassian Yee and Dr. Caleb Bashor (Rice University)
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