Yuan Wang is an Associate Professor at
the College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. She
completed her Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to
joining the faculty of Florida State University in 2015, she completed
postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California at San Diego and the
University of Washington. She is a member of the Association for Research in
Otolaryngology (ARO) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Her research team
studies cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neural circuits and
synaptic maturation and explores the neuropathology of psychiatric disorders.
Zucai Suo received his B.S. in chemistry
and M.S. in physical chemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He
then worked as a semiconductor scientist to develop infrared detectors for
meteorological satellites at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Then, he moved to the USA to study and obtained his Ph.D.
in biological chemistry in the laboratory of Kenneth A. Johnson at Pennsylvania
State University. After graduate studies, he became a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial
Fund Postdoctoral Fellow for two years in the laboratory of Christopher T.
Walsh at Harvard Medical School. Then, he worked as a senior biochemist at Eli
Lilly to develop anti-hepatitis C drugs. From 2001 to 2018, he was an
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, The
Ohio State University. In 2018, he moved his laboratory to Florida State
University College of Medicine. He has served in different administrative roles
for the Division of Chemical Toxicology, the American Chemical Society.
Notably, he has co-founded a biotech company in San Diego, California, and is
in the process of founding the Drug Discovery Institute at Florida State
University. So far, he has won numerous awards, published 107 research
articles, applied for four patents, and worked on the early development of two
blockbuster antiviral drugs. He has trained over 80 people including postdocs,
graduate students, undergraduate students, and high school students.
