Research
Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized investigator in male reproductive medicine and biology, leading the efforts to develop a safe, effective and reversible hormonal male contraceptive and optimal methods of male hormone replacement therapy and new androgen replacement for hypogonadal men. Her lab studies the mechanisms and signal pathways of germ cell apoptosis, the hormonal regulation of spermatogenesis, reproductive toxicology, animal models for Klinefelters’ syndrome, hormonal measurements and semen analyses methods. Additionally, her lab is currently focused on the cytoprotective action of the peptide, humanin, to prevent onco-infertility and cardiotoxicity induced by chemotherapy occurring in cancer survivors.
Biography
Christina Wang, MD is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Senior Associate Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and a faculty member of the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and The Lundquist Institute, Torrance, California.
She received her medical degree and internal medicine training at the University of Hong Kong and endocrinology sub-specialty training in Melbourne, Australia. Her current funded research studies include androgen replacement therapy, regulation of spermatogenesis, male contraceptive development, male hypogonadism, diet and androgen metabolism, and lifestyle modifications on sperm epigenome.
She has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications, 82 chapters and many reviews mainly on male reproductive biology. She has mentored many physicians and scientists and is an advocate of young investigators Dr. Wang has been an invited speaker and distinguished lecturer at many national and international endocrinology, reproductive biology, and andrology conferences. For her contributions to Andrology and Medicine, she received the American Society of Andrology (ASA) Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and Distinguished Andrologist Award in 2013, and the Mayo Soley award from the Western Society of Clinical Investigation in 2015.
She was the David Todd Distinguished Lecturer at the Hong Kong Medical Forum in 2019, the Allan F, Memorial Lecturer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2020, and the Steinberger Memorial lecture at the ASA in 2023.