Publications

Preprints

1. Qian, H., Wu, C., Yang, Y., Li, B., Rosenzweig, A#. and Wang, M.#, 2025. Uncovering the Molecular Landscape of Physical Activity: Proteomic Insights from the UK Biobank. medRxiv, pp.2025-06.

2. He, K., Fan, L., Qian, H., Li, C. and Wang, M.#, 2025. PABformer: Multi-Channel Transformer-Based Physical Activity Representation Learning from Wearable Accelerometry for Prediction of Parkinson Disease. medRxiv, pp.2025-08. 

3. He, K., Fang, Y., Frank, E., Li, C., Bohnert, A., Sen, S.# and Wang, M.#, 2026. Personalized Insights Derived from Wearable Device Data and Large Language Models to Improve Well-Being. medRxiv, pp.2026-03.

2026

23. Qian, H., Wu, C., Li, B., Rosenzweig, A.# and Wang, M.#, 2026. Plasma Proteomics Linking Primary and Secondary diseases: Insights into Molecular Mediation from UK Biobank Data. Med. 101232, ISSN 2666-6340.

22. Yue, L., Jiang, W., Li, S., Luo, M., Fan, N., Zhan, X., Sun, R., Cheng, H., Xue, Z., Liu, T. and Zhou, Q., … Wang, M., …, Zhu, Y., Ji, Y., Li, Y., Guo, T. 2026. Spatial distribution of the proteome in the human body and in cancers. Nature, pp.1-10.

21. Wu, C., Li, D., Khetarpal, S.A., Yuan, Z., Huang, S., Guerra, J.R.B., Li, C., Zhou, Q., Quan, M., He, J. and Wang, M.#, Liang, H.#, and Rosenzweig, A.#, 2026. Large-Scale Identification of Novel Protein Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Heart and Brain Disease. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2026 Apr;5(4):351-365. doi: 10.1038/s44161-026-00799-2. Epub 2026 Apr 2. PMID: 41927926.

2025

20. Bahmani, A., Cha, K., Alavi, A., ... Wang, M., ...., & Snyder, M.P. (2025). Achieving inclusive healthcare through integrating education and research with AI and personalized curricula. Commun Med 5, 356. 

2024

19. Zhou, X., Shen, X., Johnson, J. S., Spakowicz, D. J., Agnello, M., Zhou, W., ...Wang, M., …, & Snyder, M. P. (2024). Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease. Cell Host & Microbe, 32(4), 506-526. 

18. Donovan, L. J., Bridges, C. M., Nippert, A. R., Wang, M., Wu, S., Forman, T. E., ... & Tawfik, V. L. (2024). Repopulated spinal cord microglia exhibit a unique transcriptome and contribute to pain resolution. Cell Reports, 43(2).

Prevous work

17. Bridges CM, Donovan LJ, Nippert AR, Wang M, Wu S, Forman TE, Haight ES, Huck NA, Jordan CE, Gardner AS, Nair RV. Newly Repopulated Spinal Cord Microglia Exhibit A Unique Transcriptome And Coincide With Sex-Independent Pain Resolution. The Journal of Pain. 2023 Apr 1;24(4):5-6.

16. Duarte, N, Arora, RK, Bennett, G, Wang, M, Snyder, MP, Cooperstock, JR, and Wagner, CE. Deploying wearable sensors for pandemic mitigation: A counterfactual modelling study of Canada’s second COVID-19 wave. PLOS Digital Health 1(9): e0000100.PMID: 36812624.

15.  Alavi, A*, Bogu, GK*, Wang, M*, Rangan, ES*, Brooks, AW*, Wang, Q, Higgs, E, Celli, A, Mishra, T, Cha, K, Knowles, P, Alavi, A, Bhasin, R, Panchamukhi, S, Celis, D, Honkala, A, Rolnik, B, Li, X, Bahmani, A, and Snyder, MP. Real-time Alerting System for COVID-19 and Other Stress Events Using Wearable Data. Nat Med. 2022; 28(1): 175–184.PMID: 34845389. (co-first author)

14.  Wang, M, Jiang, L, and Snyder, MP. AdaTiSS: A Novel Data-Adaptive Robust Method for Quantifying Tissue Specificity Scores. Bioinformatics. 2021 Dec 7;37(23):4469-4476PMID: 34146104.

13.  Wang, M, Jiang, L, and Snyder, MP. AdaReg: Data-Adaptive Robust Estimation in Linear Regression with Applications in GTEx Gene Expressions. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2021 Jul 13;20(2):51-71.PMID: 34252998.

12.  Keating, BJ, Mukhtar, EH, Elftmann, ED, … Wang M, et al. Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients and Household Members using Wearable Devices. Transpl Int. 2021 Jun;34(6):1019-1031PMID: 33735480.

11. Wang, M, Jiang, L, Jian, R, Chan, JY, Liu, Q, Snyder, MP, and Tang, H. RobNorm: Model-Based Robust Normalization Method for Labeled Quantitative Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Data. Bioinformatics. 2021 May 5;37(6):815-821. PMID: 33098413.

10.  Wang, C, Zhou, X, Wang, M, Chen, X. The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the Human Immune System and Microbiome. Infectious Microbes & Diseases. 2021 Mar; 3(1): 14–21.

9. Mishra, T*, Wang, M*, Metwally, AA*, Bogu, GK*, Brooks, AW*, Bahmani, A*, Alavi, A*, Celli, A, Higgs, E, Dagan-Rosenfeld, O, Fay, B, Kirkpatrick, S, Kellogg, R, Gibson, M, Wang, T, Hunting, EM, Mamic, P, Ganz, AB, Rolnik, B, Li, X, and Snyder, MP. Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data. Nat Biomed Eng 4, 1208–1220 (2020). PMID: 33208926. (co-first author)

8. Jiang, L*, Wang, M*, Lin, S, Jian, R, Li, X, Chan, JY, Dong, G, Fang, H, Robinson, A, GTEx Consortium, Snyder, MP. A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body. Cell. 2020 Oct 1;183(1):269-283PMID: 32916130. (co-first author)

7. GTEx Consortium. The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues. Science.2020 Sep 11;369(6509):1318-1330. PMID: 32913098.

6. Arias-Castro*, E, Castro, R*, Tánczos, E*, and Wang, M*. Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 113(522) (2015): 789-801. (co-first author)

5. Stranger, B. E., L. E. Brigham, R. Hasz, M. Hunter, C. Johns, M. Johnson, G. Kopen, W. F. Leinweber, J. T. Lonsdale, A. McDonald, …Wang, M, et al. Enhancing GTEx by bridging the gaps between genotype, gene expression, and disease. Nature Genetics, 11 Oct 2017, 49(12):1664-1670. PMID: 29019975. 

4.    Wang, M, Ji, Z, Kim, H, Wang, S, Xiong, L, and Jiang, X. Selecting Optimal Subset to release under Differentially Private M-estimators from Hybrid Datasets. IEEE Trans Knowl Data Eng. 2018 Mar 1; 30(3): 573–584. PMID: 30034201.  

3.   Wang, M, Ji, Z, Wang, S, Kim, J, Yang, H, Jiang, X, and Ohno-Machado, L. Mechanisms to Protect the Privacy of Families when Using the Transmission Disequilibrium Test in Genome-Wide Association Studies. Bioinformatics, 33(23) (2017): 3716-3725. PMID: 29036461.

2.   Arias-Castro, E* and Wang, M*. Distribution-free tests for sparse heterogeneous mixtures. Test 26(1) (2017): 71-94. (co-first author)

1.   Arias-Castro, E* and Wang, M*.  The Sparse Poisson Means Model. Electron. J. Statist. 9(2): 2170-2201 (2015). DOI: 10.1214/15-EJS1066 (co-first author)