He received his PhD in Biochemistry from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2000. He then worked as a Bioinformatics Specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and later as a Bioinformatics Manager at Applied Biosystems. In 2007, Dr. Wang joined Washington University to set up an RNAi research lab. Dr. Wang’s contributions to science include computational and experimental identification of microRNA targets; development of bioinformatics tools for microRNA and gene expression research; identification of prognostic biomarkers for human cancers; and development of microRNA therapeutics for human cancers. Dr. Wang’s work has been referenced by thousands of publications in the field of microRNA research.