Research Area: cell metabolism, aging, imaging

Location: United States

Meng Wang received her B.S. degree from Peking University in 2001 and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Rochester in 2005. From 2005 to 2010, she conducted her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine, where she served from 2010 to 2022. In 2022, she joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus, where she currently serves as a Senior Group Leader. Her research is dedicated to revealing the pivotal roles of metabolic signaling in orchestrating organismal homeostasis and longevity. Using C. elegans as a primary model system and leveraging multidisciplinary approaches such as functional genomics, metabolomics, and optical biophysics, her laboratory investigates somatic aging, lipid metabolism, and reproductive senescence. Prior to joining Janelia in 2022, she served as an HHMI Investigator and a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2016), the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Medicine (2017), the ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award, the HHMI Faculty Scholars Award (2016), and the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. She is also an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).

Web: https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/meng-c-wang