Dr Hongyan Wang is currently Professor and Acting Director of the Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders (NBD) Program at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She received her PhD in 2004 under the guidance of Prof. Mohan Balasubramanian in the National University of Singapore and joined Prof. William Chia’s laboratory in Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory as a postdoctoral Research Fellow, where she focused on the asymmetric division of Drosophila neural stem cells from 2004 to 2007.
Dr Wang joined Duke-NUS Medical School as an Assistant Professor in October 2007 and was promoted to Professor with tenure in January 2020. Her laboratory uses both Drosophila and mammalian systems to investigate the mechanisms of brain development and the underlying causes of neurodevelopmental disorders. She received the Singapore National Academy of Sciences and A*STAR Young Scientist Award in the year 2008 and a National Research Foundation (NRF) fellowship in 2009. Dr. Wang is an elected EMBO Associate Member in 2020, a life-long honor in recognition of her research excellence and outstanding accomplishments.