Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the Miami Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is a neurobiologist interested in mapping of susceptibility genes for common complex diseases and developing neurodegenerative disease model. Dr. Wang’s work focuses on genetic and pathogenesis study of Parkinson’s disease and age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Wang earned his PhD in Physiology from the Fourth Military Medical University, China. Then, he worked on iron metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases in Dr. Zhongming Qian’s Lab at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 1999 to 2000. As a postdoc working with Dr. Yehia Daaka at Duke University, he identified the mechanism of the bacterial invasion of epithelial cells by taking advantage of S-nitrosylation of dynamin. In 2005, he started medical genetic study in Duke Center for Human Genetics and was supervised by Dr. Jeffery M. Vance. He found that miRNA polymorphic binding confers risk for common complex diseases, including Parkinson’s disease.