Career
Wang joined the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University in December 1995 as the director of the newly established Plant Transformation Facility. [3] She later held the Global Professorship in Biotechnology. [4] In 2007,she collaborated with Brian Trewyn,Francois Torney,and Victor Lin to become the first scientists to use nanotechnology to penetrate rigid plant cell walls and deliver DNA and chemicals with precise control. [5] Wang later demonstrated the ability to deliver proteins and DNA into plant cells simultaneously using mesoporous silica nanoparticles. [6] As a result of her research,she was honored with one of the 2015 Iowa Women of Innovation Award. [7]
As a full professor,Wang received a three-year,$830,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to "develop a suite of technological tools that could allow scientists to develop yams with improved yields,nutritional value and better resistance to stresses." [8] She was later awarded the 2017 Fellow Award from the Society for In Vitro Biology. [3] During the COVID-19 pandemic,Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her "advances in genetic engineering in plants using Agrobacterium tumefaciens." [9] She also received the 2020 Outstanding Achievement in Research Award. [10]
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