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Xiaodong Wang was born in Wuhan, China and grew up in Henan Province. He graduated from Beijing Normal University in 1984 and came to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 with Dr. Rich Padget and stayed at UT-Southwestern for postdoctoral training in Drs. Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein's laboratory. Xiaodong started his independent research career at Emory University. He returned to UT-Southwestern in 1996, was elected to Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 1997 and became a full professor in 2000. He is currently an investigator at HHMI and also holds the title of George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair Professor in Biomedical Science at UT-Southwestern. His research centers on the molecular mechanism of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in human cells. For his work, he has been honored with the Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences, USA; Norman Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation; Paul Marks Prize from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and Eli Lilly Award from American Chemical Society. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, in 2004. | 