Xiao Wang, Ph.D.
associate Professor
Xiao Wang is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. She started her lab in 2019 to develop and apply new chemical, biophysical, and genomic tools to better understand tissue function and dysfunction at the molecular level. Wang joined the MIT and Broad after conducting postdoctoral research at Stanford University Bioengineering with Professor Karl Deisseroth, where she was a fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Wang received her B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Engineering from Peking University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago with Professor Chuan He.
Position
2019-2024 Assistant Professor at MIT Chemistry; Core Member at Broad Institute
2024-present Associate Professor at MIT Chemistry; Core Member at Broad Institute
Education
2006-2010 B.S. Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2010-2015 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Chicago
2015-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Teaching
5.07, Introduction to Biological Chemistry, Fall semester
5.64/HST.539, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Science in Human Health & Disease, Spring semester
Honors and Awards
2024 Sloan Research Fellowship
2022 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
2022 Merkin Institute Fellowship, Merkin Institute for Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2)
2021 Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Award, Ono Pharma Foundation
2021 Edward Scolnick Professorship, Broad Institute
2020 Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professorship, MIT
2020 Searle Scholar in Biomedical Research and Chemistry
2016 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship, Life Sciences Research Foundation & Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
2015 Elizabeth R. Norton Prize for Excellence in Research in Chemistry, the University of Chicago
2015 Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council
2013 Helen Sellei-Beretvas Fellowship, the University of Chicago
2009 First Prize in the 11th National University Challenge Cup Competition in Academic Science and Technology
2009 China National Petroleum Corporation Scholarship, Peking University
2008 Xia Guang Scholarship, Peking University
2006 Freshman Scholarship, Peking University
2006 Gold Medal in National Chemistry Olympiad for high school students