Bio:

Fan Wang is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, co-director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics, and an investigator at the McGovern Institute at MIT. 

Before coming to MIT in January 2021, she obtained her PhD from Columbia University working with Richard Axel, and received postdoctoral training at UCSF and Stanford University with Marc Tessier-Lavigne. She became a faculty member at Duke University in 2003 where she was later appointed Morris N. Broad Professor of Neurobiology. She has made important contributions to neural mechanisms underlying general anesthesia, pain perception, and movement control and she aims to translate her findings into treatments for chronic pain and movement disorders.