Biography

Xiaodong Wang is a professor of biochemistry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he has been on faculty since 1996. He also has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.

Wang received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China, in 1984 and a doctorate degree in biochemistry from UT Southwestern in 1991. Among the honors he has received are the Richard Lounsbery Award and the Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences, USA; the Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation in Houston; the Paul Marks Prize from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; the Eli Lilly Award from the American Chemical Society; the Schering-Plough Award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine in 2006.

Wang’s laboratory’s research focuses on the cellular mechanism that controls the life and death of animal cells.

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