Fang Wan graduated from the School of Pharmacy at Shandong University in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree. She then earned a Master's degree in July 2000 from the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. In May 2007, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Following her doctorate, Dr. Wan worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Ansari Laboratory of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2011 to 2013, she served as the director of the Genome Editing Laboratory in the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she contributed to the development of TALEN, a genome editing tool. Since 2014, she has been a professor and doctoral advisor at the College of Life Sciences at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. During the period of 2020 to 2021, she was a senior visiting scholar in Tang Huiru's laboratory at the College of Life Sciences, Fudan University. Dr. Wan have research interests in molecular pharmacology, focusing on small molecules with anti-cancer activities, and nanobody development. She has published more than 20 papers.