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Shouwen Wang

Shouwen Wang

Assistant Professor , Westlake University

Dr. Shou-Wen Wang received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 2013. He went on to obtain a PhD in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2018. During 2018-2022, Dr. Wang worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He was awarded the Quantitative Biology Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation during his postdoc.

In 2023, he joined Westlake University as an assistant professor in the School of Life Sciences, with a joint appointment in the physics department and center for interdisciplinary studies. Dr. Wang pioneered the field of lineage tracing and developed MethylTree, the first non-invasive lineage tracing tool based on DNA methylation epimutations, which opens the door for single-cell multiomic lineage tracing in humans.

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