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Professor Ping Wang serves as Vice Dean of the School of Medicine at Tongji University, a position held since March 2017. He has been a Professor and PhD Supervisor at the School of Life Science and Technology and the School of Medicine since February 2015. Prior to these roles, he was Professor and Supervisor of PhD students at the Institute of Biomedical Science, East China Normal University, where he also served as Dean of the Biomedical Department and Director of the Discipline of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology. His earlier career includes postdoctoral positions at the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University, the Heather Center at the University of Connecticut, and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. He earned his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002 and his Bachelor degree from the School of Life Sciences at Fudan University in 1997.

Professor Wang’s laboratory focuses on stem cell signal transduction, with emphasis on metabolic and immune environments, tumor cell microenvironment reconstruction, and post-translational modifications of regulatory proteins such as ubiquitination, sumoylation, crotonylation, phosphorylation, and methylation in the processes of tumorigenesis, development, and metastasis. He has held leadership roles including Expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, member of the expert review group in the faculty of life sciences, Deputy Director of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, Secretary General of its tumor cell biology branch, and committee member of the Tumor Immune Specialized Committee of the Shanghai Society of Immunology. He serves on the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Biological Chemistry. Among his honors are the 2016 Distinguished Young Scholars of China award from the National Science Foundation, the 2012 Outstanding Youth Foundation from the National Fund Committee, the 2011 Shanghai “Dawn Scholar” Talent plan, the 2010 “New Century Talent” Plan by the Ministry of Education, and the 2006 AHA Postdoctoral fellowship.