YanYan Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Ben and Maytee Fisch College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Tyler. She received her Ph.D. in pharmacology from Yale University, USA and a bachelor degree from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College (formerly Shanghai Medical University), China. She did her postdoctoral trainings in neurobiology and molecular biology at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Salk Institute and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and then an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Information Science and Pharmacology, Colleges of Medicine, and an affiliate member at the Carl R. Woese Institute of Genomic Biology and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.