Libin Wang, MD, PhD

Dr. Libin Wang is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine.  He finished premedical training at Nankai University and obtained medical degrees from Tianjin Medical University in China.

He received his PhD in genetics from Texas A&M University. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral researches in cardiovascular disease genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His passion about patient care had driven him to complete internal medicine residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Wang joined the University of Maryland faculty in July 2016.

His clinical interests are in general cardiology, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and echocardiography. His research primarily focuses on the genetics of cardiovascular diseases.

Representative Publications:

Pathways Forward in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention one and a Half Years After Publication of the 2013 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guidelines
Functional Characterization of a Novel Mutation in NKX2-5 Associated With Congenital Heart Disease and Adult-Onset Cardiomyopathy
Genome-Wide Studies of Copy Number Variation and Exome Sequencing Identify Rare Variants in BAG3 as a Cause of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Truncations of Titin Causing Dilated Cardiomyopathy