Associate Professor Yao Wang
Associate Professor Yao Wang, MSc, PhD.
Associate Professor (Conjoint), St George Clinical School, University of New South Wales.
Professor Wang graduated and obtained his BSc/MSc degrees from the Department of Biochemistry at the Nanjing University, China, and then completed his PhD degree in the Molecular Medicine Unit in the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) at the Australian National University in 1989. He conducted four years post-doctoral research in the University of California, San Francisco and the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford University working on IL-5, HLA-DR alpha and T cell receptor genes respectively.
His positions of Research Fellow at the JCSMR and Senior Scientist at the Westmead Hospital of Sydney University have provided him an opportunity to work as a laboratory leader.
In 1999, he was appointed as a Principal Scientific Officer in the St George Hospital and a conjoint Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales.
Over the past 18 years he has built up a program of research in cloning, regulation and signal transduction of urokinase receptor, with a focus on cancer progression and metastasis. He currently holds several research grants, as well as his PhD/MSc student’s grant funding from overseas governments. He has 50 publications in peer reviewed journals including "Journal Experimental Medicine", "Journal of Biological Chemistry", "Oncogene" and "European Journal of Biochemistry".
He has served on referees for various international journals and on grant reviews for ARC and NH&MRC. He has also been an invited speaker on his area of research on a number of occasions nationally and internationally.
