Wang-Xia Wang received her Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a postdoctoral in NFkB Signaling from the Weizmann Institute of Science and in MicroRNA Biology from the University of Kentucky. She is an Assistant Professor at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky. Her research interests mainly focus on the role of microRNA in neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury; subcellular microRNA trafficking and function.