Dr. Yong Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
College of Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
USA
Biography
Dr. Wang got his B.S. degree in Environmental Chemistry at Jilin University in 1995. He switched the major to Chemical Engineering and got his M.S. degree in 1998 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojun Ma. He pursued his Ph.D. education in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University between 2000 and 2004, studying drug and gene delivery with Drs. Fan Yuan and Chuan-Yuan Li. Afterwards, Dr. Wang worked with Drs. Bruce Sullenger and Eli Gilboa at Duke University Medical Center before taking a faculty position at the University of Connecticut in August 2006. He received a CAREER Award and a CREATIV Award from NSF in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Dr. Wang was promoted to associate professor (with tenure) in August 2011 and he moved from UConn to Penn State in January 2013 (with tenure).
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