Dr Hongyan Wang is currently Professor and Deputy Director of the Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders (NBD) Program at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. In 1998 she received her B.S. from East China University of Science & Technology, China. In 2004 she received a PhD in Genetics with Prof. Mohan Balasubramanian from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore, with the Chua Toh Hua Memorial Gold Medal awarded for her PhD work in the cell division of the fission yeast. Subsequently, she joined Prof. William Chia’s laboratory in Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory as a postdoctoral Research Fellow working on asymmetric division of Drosophila neural stem cells from 2004 to 2007. She had one-year postdoctoral training stint at the University of California, San Francisco with Prof. Ulrike Heberlein from 2006 to 2007.
She joined Duke-NUS Medical School as an Assistant Professor in October 2007. She was appointed to the faculty of the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS)/ Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP) since 2008 and was jointly appointed at the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine since 2009. She was appointed as Interim Director of Duke-NUS NBD program in 2015- February 2017 and as Deputy Director of Duke-NUS NBD since April 2017. She was promoted to Professor with tenure at Duke-NUS in Jan 2020.