Zaijie Wang
Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy - Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Overview:
https://zjwang.lab.uic.edu/
Research Interests:
Pain
Addiction
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Neurobiology
Epigenetics
Pharmacology
Natural product pharmacology; CNS drug discovery
Targeted delivery
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PhD Thesis Research (BPS 599), 1/8/2024 – 4/26/2024
Undergrad Res Exp Pharm Sci (PSCI 300), 8/21/2023 – 12/1/2023
PhD Thesis Research (BPS 599), 8/21/2023 – 12/1/2023
PhD Thesis Research (BPS 599), 1/9/2023 – 4/28/2023
PhD Thesis Research (BPS 599), 8/22/2022 – 12/2/2022
PhD Thesis Research (BPS 599), 1/10/2022 – 4/29/2022
PSCI Ph.D. Thesis Research (PSCI 599), 1/10/2022 – 4/29/2022
PRINCIPLES OF DRUG ACTION AND THERAPEUTICS (PDAT 507), 8/16/2021 – 2030
PHARMACOKINETICS (PHAR 435), 1/11/2021 – 12/31/2030
Selected Publications
Kashyap, Yavnika, Wang, Zaijie Jim. (2024). Gut microbiota dysbiosis alters chronic pain behaviors in a humanized transgenic mouse model of sickle cell disease. Pain, 165, (2), 423-439. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003034.
He, Ying, Guo, Xiao, Molokie, Robert, Wang, Zaijie Jim. (2023). Β-Lactam Antibiotic Ceftriaxone As a Potential Therapeutic Intervention for Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease. Blood, 142, (Supplement 1), 2495. doi:10.1182/blood-2023-188342.
Kashyap, Yavnika, He, Ying, Sadhu, Nilanjana, Yao, Yingwei, Wilkie, Diana J, Molokie, Robert E, Wang, Zaijie Jim. (2023). An alcohol dehydrogenase 7 gene polymorphism associates with both acute and chronic pain in sickle cell disease. Pharmacogenomics, 24, (12), 641-649. doi:10.2217/pgs-2023-0084.
Kashyap, Yavnika, Wang, Zaijie Jim. (2023). Reshaping the gut microbiota affects pain and anxiety-like behaviors in a transgenic model of sickle cell disease. Physiology, 38, (S1), 5732904. doi:10.1152/physiol.2023.38.s1.5732904.
Hennessy, Madeline R, Gutridge, Anna M, French, Alexander R, Rhoda, Elizabeth S, Meqbil, Yazan J, Gill, Meghna, Kashyap, Yavnika, Appourchaux, Kevin, Paul, Barnali, Wang, Zaijie Jim, van Rijn, Richard M, Riley, Andrew P. (2023). Modified Akuamma Alkaloids with Increased Potency at the Mu-opioid Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 66, (5), 3312-3326. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.2c01707.
Han, Jiaojiao, Wang, Ziyan, Lu, Chenyang, Zhou, Jun, Li, Ye, Ming, Tinghong, Zhang, Zhen, Wang, Zaijie Jim, Su, Xiurong. (2021). The gut microbiota mediates the protective effects of anserine supplementation on hyperuricaemia and associated renal inflammation. Food & Function, 12, (19), 9030-9042. doi:10.1039/d1fo01884a.
He, Ying, Shi, Zuoxiao, Kashyap, Yavnika, Messing, Robert O, Wang, Zaijie Jim. (2021). Protein kinase Cδ as a neuronal mechanism for headache in a chronic intermittent nitroglycerin model of migraine in mice. Pain, 162, (10), 2499-2511. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002353.
Han, Jiaojiao, Huang, Zhongbai, Tang, Shasha, Lu, Chenyang, Wan, Haitao, Zhou, Jun, Li, Ye, Ming, Tinghong, Jim Wang, Zaijie, Su, Xiurong. (2020). The novel peptides ICRD and LCGEC screened from tuna roe show antioxidative activity via Keap1/Nrf2-ARE pathway regulation and gut microbiota modulation. Food Chemistry, 327, 127094. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.127094.
Schoppee, Tasha M, Dyal, Brenda W, Scarton, Lisa, Ezenwa, Miriam O, Singh, Prashant, Yao, Yingwei, Suarez, Marie L, Wang, Zaijie J, Molokie, Robert E, Wilkie, Diana J. (2020). Patients and Caregivers Rate the PAINReportIt Wireless Internet-Enabled Tablet as a Method for Reporting Pain During End-of-Life Cancer Care.. Cancer Nursing, 43, (5), 419-424. doi:10.1097/ncc.0000000000000743.
Professional Leadership
NIH NPI Study Section, NIH, 10/1/2014 - 6/30/2021
Ontario Genomics Institute’s Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), 2012 - 2012
Education
Degrees:
Ph.D, University of California at San Francisco, United States