publications

2026

1. JCI Insight

   A cross model single-cell atlas reveals conserved involvement of osteopontin in polycystic kidney disease

   Sarah J. Miller, Hua Zhong, Weidong Wu, Audrey M. Cordova, Morgan E. Yashchenko, and 23 more authors

   JCI Insight, Jul 2026

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   @article{miller2026osteopontin,
     title = {A cross model single-cell atlas reveals conserved involvement of osteopontin in polycystic kidney disease},
     author = {Miller, Sarah J. and Zhong, Hua and Wu, Weidong and Cordova, Audrey M. and Yashchenko, Morgan E. and Yashchenko, Alex and Li, Zhang and Jafree, Daniyal J. and Zimmerman, Chelsea N. and DeVette, Christa I. and Do, Vicki and Hignite, Maya E. and Park, Yohan and Nusrat, Fariha and Maryam, Bibi and Lu, Sizhao and Li, Xiaoyan and Gipson, Jenny R. and Li, Xiaogang and Long, David A. and Weiser-Evans, Mary C. M. and Yoder, Bradley K. and Cowley, Benjamin D. and Hopp, Katharina and Stubbs, Jason R. and Ma, Qin and Ma, Anjun and Zimmerman, Kurt A.},
     journal = {JCI Insight},
     year = {2026},
     month = jul,
     doi = {10.1172/jci.insight.207157},
     publisher = {American Society for Clinical Investigation}
   }

2. Nat Commun

   Deep-learning-enabled multi-omics analyses for prediction of future metastasis in cancer

   Xiaoying Wang, Maoteng Duan, Anthony J. Snyder, Po-Lan Su, Jianying Li, and 19 more authors

   Nature Communications, Aug 2026

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   @article{wang2026metastasis,
     title = {Deep-learning-enabled multi-omics analyses for prediction of future metastasis in cancer},
     author = {Wang, Xiaoying and Duan, Maoteng and Snyder, Anthony J. and Su, Po-Lan and Li, Jianying and Krull, Jordan and Jin, Jiacheng and Xu, Yang and Sun, Yuhan and Chen, Hu and Wu, Weidong and Chen, Weiqing and He, Kai and Zhang, Chi and Cao, Sha and Zhao, Jing and Xu, Dong and Wang, Guangyu and Li, Lang and Xin, Gang and Carbone, David P. and Li, Zihai and Carpenter, Richard L. and Ma, Qin},
     journal = {Nature Communications},
     year = {2026},
     month = aug,
     doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-76277-x},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}
   }

2025

1. Nature

   Proteotoxic stress response drives T cell exhaustion and immune evasion

   Yi Wang, Anjun Ma, No-Joon Song, Ariana E. Shannon, Yaa S. Amankwah, and 20 more authors

   Nature, Oct 2025

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   @article{wang2025proteotoxic,
     title = {Proteotoxic stress response drives T cell exhaustion and immune evasion},
     author = {Wang, Yi and Ma, Anjun and Song, No-Joon and Shannon, Ariana E. and Amankwah, Yaa S. and Chen, Xingyu and Wu, Weidong and Wang, Ziyu and Saadey, Abbey A. and Yousif, Amir and Ghosh, Gautam and Mandula, Jay K. and Velegraki, Maria and Xiao, Tong and Wen, Haitao and Huang, Stanley Ching-Cheng and Wang, Ruoning and Beusch, Christian M. and Dawood, Abdelhameed S. and Gordon, David E. and Abdel-Hakeem, Mohamed S. and Ghoneim, Hazem E. and Xin, Gang and Searle, Brian C. and Li, Zihai},
     journal = {Nature},
     volume = {647},
     number = {8091},
     pages = {1025--1035},
     year = {2025},
     month = oct,
     doi = {10.1038/s41586-025-09539-1},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}
   }

2. Nat Commun

   O-GlcNAc transferase plays dual antiviral roles by integrating innate immunity and lipid metabolism

   Hong Dong, Chenxi Liang, Junjie Zhang, Weidong Wu, Nitesh Kumar, and 16 more authors

   Nature Communications, Aug 2025

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   @article{dong2025oglcnac,
     title = {O-GlcNAc transferase plays dual antiviral roles by integrating innate immunity and lipid metabolism},
     author = {Dong, Hong and Liang, Chenxi and Zhang, Junjie and Wu, Weidong and Kumar, Nitesh and Liu, Zihao and Sun, Yajun and Liao, Zhiwei and Cheng, Xiaolin and Yu, Yanbao and Zhang, Yong and Holtzman, Michael J. and Li, Jianrong and Gowdy, Kymberly M. and Thomas, Paul G. and Badjic, Jovica D. and Ma, Anjun and Ma, Qin and Yount, Jacob S. and Liu, Shan-Lu and Wen, Haitao},
     journal = {Nature Communications},
     volume = {16},
     number = {1},
     year = {2025},
     month = aug,
     doi = {10.1038/s41467-025-63085-y},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}
   }

3. BPO

   Heterogeneity and efficacy of immunotherapy in multiple cancer: insights from a meta-analysis

   Weidong Wu, Bin Liu, Qing Zhang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Pengya Feng, and 2 more authors

   Biological Procedures OnlineCo-first author , May 2025

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   @article{wu2025immunotherapy,
     title = {Heterogeneity and efficacy of immunotherapy in multiple cancer: insights from a meta-analysis},
     author = {Wu, Weidong and Liu, Bin and Zhang, Qing and Zhang, Xiaojuan and Feng, Pengya and Jia, Yongliang and Xue, Xia},
     journal = {Biological Procedures Online},
     volume = {27},
     number = {1},
     year = {2025},
     month = may,
     doi = {10.1186/s12575-025-00274-5},
     publisher = {BioMed Central}
   }

2024

1. bioRxiv

   scGNN+: Adapting ChatGPT for seamless tutorial and code optimization

   Yi Jiang, Shuang Wang, Shaohong Feng, Cankun Wang, Weidong Wu, and 4 more authors

   bioRxiv, Oct 2024

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   @article{jiang2024scgnn,
     title = {scGNN+: Adapting ChatGPT for seamless tutorial and code optimization},
     author = {Jiang, Yi and Wang, Shuang and Feng, Shaohong and Wang, Cankun and Wu, Weidong and Huang, Xiaopei and Ma, Qin and Wang, Juexin and Ma, Anjun},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     year = {2024},
     month = oct,
     doi = {10.1101/2024.09.30.615735},
   }

2023

1. PeerJ

   The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic

   Yuanfang Si, Weidong Wu, Xia Xue, Xiangdong Sun, Yaping Qin, and 6 more authors

   PeerJCo-first author , Sep 2023

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   @article{si2023sarscov2,
     title = {The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic},
     author = {Si, Yuanfang and Wu, Weidong and Xue, Xia and Sun, Xiangdong and Qin, Yaping and Li, Ya and Qiu, Chunjing and Li, Yingying and Zhuo, Ziran and Mi, Yang and Zheng, Pengyuan},
     journal = {PeerJ},
     volume = {11},
     pages = {e15990},
     year = {2023},
     month = sep,
     doi = {10.7717/peerj.15990},
     publisher = {PeerJ}
   }

2020

1. CACRE

   SFNN: Semantic features fusion neural network for multimodal sentiment analysis

   Weidong Wu, Yabo Wang, Shuning Xu, and Kaibo Yan

   In 2020 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE), Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{wu2020sfnn,
     title = {SFNN: Semantic features fusion neural network for multimodal sentiment analysis},
     author = {Wu, Weidong and Wang, Yabo and Xu, Shuning and Yan, Kaibo},
     booktitle = {2020 5th International Conference on Automation, Control and Robotics Engineering (CACRE)},
     pages = {661--665},
     year = {2020},
     month = sep,
     doi = {10.1109/CACRE50138.2020.9230015},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2019

1. ICAIS

   NOAA-LSTM: A new method of dialect identification

   Shuai Ye, Cuixia Li, Ruoyan Zhao, and Weidong Wu

   In Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019), 2019

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   @inproceedings{ye2019noaalstm,
     title = {NOAA-LSTM: A new method of dialect identification},
     author = {Ye, Shuai and Li, Cuixia and Zhao, Ruoyan and Wu, Weidong},
     booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019)},
     pages = {16--26},
     year = {2019},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-24274-9_2},
     publisher = {Springer International Publishing}
   }