Hongwei Wang
Dr. Wang received his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences & Biotechnology from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 1996. He did his thesis work under the supervision of Prof. Sen-Fang Sui, earning a Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2001. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Eva Nogales, advancing to Research Scientist in 2006 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined Yale University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 2009 and returned to his alma mater as a Professor of Life Sciences in December, 2010. He served as the Dean of School of Life Sciences from 2016-2021. Prof. Wang’s current research interests include methodology development for more efficient and high resolution cryo-EM, the mechanism and regulations of nucleic acid quality control, and the coordination mechanisms of cytoskeleton and membrane systems. Dr. Wang received numerous awards, including the XPLORER PRIZE of Tencent Foundation (2019), Chinese Cryo-EM Outstanding Contribution Award (2019), Tan Jiazhen Life Sciences Innovation Award (2018), Beijing Teachers’ Role Model (2018), Beijing Outstanding Teacher Award (2017) etc.
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