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Home » Speakers » Xiaodong Wang
Xiaodong Wang

Xiaodong Wang

National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
National Medal of Science Shaw Prize

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Xiaodong Wang is the Director and an Investigator of the National Institute for Biological Sciences, Beijing.  Previously, Dr. Wang was a professor of biochemistry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1997-2010.

Wang received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China, in 1984 and a doctorate degree in biochemistry from UT Southwestern in 1991. Among the honors he has received are the Richard Lounsbery Award and the Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences, USA; the Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation in Houston; the Paul Marks Prize from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; the Eli Lilly Award from the American Chemical Society; the Schering-Plough Award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine in 2006.

Wang’s laboratory’s research focuses on the cellular mechanisms that controls the life and death of animal cells.

Talks with this Speaker

Introduction to Apoptosis

Xiaodong Wang gives an introduction to apoptosis, a programmed cell death pathway required for normal development, tissue homeostasis, and removal of damaged tissue. (Talk recorded in June 2007)

  • Part 1: Introduction to Apoptosis
    Part 1: Introduction to Apoptosis
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 26:15
  • Part 2: Factors Involved in the Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis
    Part 2: Factors Involved in the Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 27:39
  • Part 3: Extrinsic Pathway and Regulation of Apoptosis
    Part 3: Extrinsic Pathway and Regulation of Apoptosis
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 23:59

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