Weiping Wang

Dr. Weiping Wang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy & Dr. Li Dak-Sum Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong. He is also a Principal Investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at HKU. He obtained his Ph.D. (supervisor: Prof. Ying Chau) in Chemical Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2011. He worked as a Research Fellow (supervisor: Prof. Daniel Kohane) at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Postdoctoral Associate (supervisor: Prof. Robert Langer) at Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

• Nanomedicine
• Photopharmacology
• Ocular drug delivery
• Photoresponsive drug delivery
• Engineering stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for drug delivery

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2006 — 2011)
• Master course certificate University of Science and Technology of China (2004 — 2006)
• Bachelor's Degree Anhui University (2000 — 2004)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2016)
• Postdoc Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2012 — 2016)
• Postdoc Harvard Medical School (2012 — 2016)
• Research Associate HKUST (2011 — 2011)