Tao Wang

Overview

Tao Wang leads a research group investigating the molecular basis of cardiovascular diseases, focusing on genetic vascular conditions and the Notch signalling in cardiovascular system. She has expertise in establishing and characterising the patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) models and identify therapeutic targets. She supervises a number of PhD students and MRes students. She directs the course Human Genetics for MSc and STP in Genomic Medicine and Genetic Counselling programmes. She pear reviews grant applications for a number of funding bodies and manuscripts for international journals. She sits on the Managing Editorial Board of "Frontiers in Bioscience" and is the Managing Editor of the FBS special issue “Signalling Pathways in Cardiovascular Function and Diseases”. She is also member of Editorial Board for journals "American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine", "Signal Transduction Insights" (an online journal) and “Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery”.

Biography

2013 – Now       Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester

2003 – 2013      Lecturer/Research Fellow, The University of Manchester

1992 – 2001      Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge

1986 – 1992      Physician Cardiologists, the 3rd Hospital of Peking University

1988 – 2001      PhD, the 3rd Hospital of Peking University Health Science Centre

1981 – 1986      Medical student, China Medical University