Jia Wu

Jia Wu is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. With a background spanning oncology, cancer biology, and radiology, Dr. Wu specializes in thoracic oncology, lung cancer, radiation oncology, cancer imaging, and tumor biology. Her latest research focuses on artificial intelligence in lung cancer clinical translation, spatial multiomics analysis of lung adenocarcinoma precursors, benchmarking DNA foundation models for genomic tasks, and machine-learning-driven strategies for adapting immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC. Dr. Wu has contributed to pivotal studies, including the phase 2 ZENITH trial evaluating poziotinib for EGFR exon 20-insertion NSCLC, and an international multicenter cohort study on leptomeningeal metastases from NSCLC. Her work, published in venues such as Cancer Cell, Nature Communications, npj Precision Oncology, Annals of Oncology, and Cancers, underscores her leadership in integrating computational approaches with translational cancer research.