Ciyang Wang

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2019

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
Identify the genetic determinants for the level of human brain and CSF metabolites; Identify the disrupted metabolic processes in Alzheimer’s disease using multi-tissue

Graduate publications
Fernandez MV, Liu M, Beric A, Johnson M, Cetin A, Patel M, Budde J, Kohlfeld P, Bergmann K, Lowery J, Flynn A, Brock W, Sanchez Montejo B, Gentsch J, Sykora N, Norton J, Gentsch J, Valdez O, Gorijala P, Sanford J, Sun Y, Wang C, Western D, Timsina J, Mangetti Goncalves T, Do AN, Sung YJ, Zhao G, Morris JC, Moulder K, Holtzman DM, Bateman RJ, Karch C, Hassenstab J, Xiong C, Schindler SE, Balls-Berry JJ, Benzinger TLS, Perrin RJ, Denny A, Snider BJ, Stark SL, Ibanez L, Cruchaga C. 2024 Genetic and multi-omic resources for Alzheimer disease and related dementia from the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center. Sci Data, 11(1):768. PMCID: PMC11245521

Wang C, Yang C, Western D, Ali M, Wang Y, Phuah CL, Budde J, Wang L, Gorijala P, Timsina J, Ruiz A, Pastor P, Fernandez MV; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN); Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI); Panyard DJ, Engelman CD, Deming Y, Boada M, Cano A, Garcia-Gonzalez P, Graff-Radford NR, Mori H, Lee JH, Perrin RJ, Ibanez L, Sung YJ, Cruchaga C. 2024 Genetic architecture of cerebrospinal fluid and brain metabolite levels and the genetic colocalization of metabolites with human traits. Nat Genet, 56(12):2685-95. PMCID:

Western D, Timsina J, Wang L, Wang C, Yang C, Phillips B, Wang Y, Liu M, Ali M, Beric A, Gorijala P, Kohlfeld P, Budde J, Levey AI, Morris JC, Perrin RJ, Ruiz A, Marquié M, Boada M, de Rojas I, Rutledge J, Oh H, Wilson EN, Le Guen Y, Reus LM, Tijms B, Visser PJ, van der Lee SJ, Pijnenburg YAL, Teunissen CE, Del Campo Milan M, Alvarez I, Aguilar M; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN); Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI); Greicius MD, Pastor P, Pulford DJ, Ibanez L, Wyss-Coray T, Sung YJ, Cruchaga C. 2024 Proteogenomic analysis of human cerebrospinal fluid identifies neurologically relevant regulation and implicates causal proteins for Alzheimer’s disease. Nat Genet, 56(12):2672-84. PMCID:

Novotny BC, Fernandez MV, Wang C, Budde JP, Bergmann K, Eteleeb AM, Bradley J, Webster C, Ebl C, Norton J, Gentsch J, Dube U, Wang F, Morris JC, Bateman RJ, Perrin RJ, McDade E, Xiong C, Chhatwal J; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) Study Group; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics Consortium (ADMC); Goate A, Farlow M, Schofield P, Chui H, Karch CM, Cruchaga C, Benitez BA, Harari O. 2023 Metabolomic and lipidomic signatures in autosomal dominant and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease brains. Alzheimers Dement, 19(5):1785-99. PMCID: PMC10106526

Chen HH, Eteleeb A, Wang C, Fernandez MV, Budde JP, Bergmann K, Norton J, Wang F, Ebl C, Morris JC, Perrin RJ, Bateman RJ, McDade E, Xiong C, Goate A, Farlow M, Chhatwal J, Schofield PR, Chui H, Harari O, Cruchaga C, Ibanez L; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. 2022 Circular RNA detection identifies circPSEN1 alterations in brain specific to autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathol Commun, 10(1):29. PMCID: PMC8895634