Jiong-Wei Wang,
Assistant Professor
Jiong-Wei Wang received his Ph.D. in Medicine in 2013 from Leiden University Medical Centre (The Netherlands). After postdoctoral trainings in University Medical Centre Utrecht and National University of Singapore (NUS), he started his own laboratory as an Assistant Professor in 2019 at the NUS Department of Surgery, with joint appointments in Department of Physiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Nanomedicine Translational Research Programme. He has more than 80 publications and recently received the Wong Hock Boon Society–Singapore Medical Association (SMA) Charity Fund (WHBS-SMACF) Outstanding Mentor Award for 2019 and the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Young Researcher of the Year Award for 2023. His research focuses on cardiovascular immunology, extracellular vesicles and nanomedicine drug delivery to develop more accurate diagnostics and more efficacious treatment approaches for cardiometabolic diseases. His laboratory has established various animal models of human diseases, including myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, for preclinical testing.
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