Haibo Wang

Dr. Haibo Wang is a professor in Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences and the deputy director of the Intelligent Molecular Diagnosis Research Center of HIM. She received her BSc in Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University (with Prof. Zongwan Mao) and PhD in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the University of Hong Kong (with Prof. Hongzhe Sun). Her PhD thesis focused on using metalloproteomics and metallomics approaches to uncover the mode-of-action of metal-based antimicrobial agents. She continued the research in HKU as a postdoctoral fellow on medicinal structure biology from 2018 to 2020. After another two years' experience of research scientist in University of Zurich, Switzerland, with Prof. Roland K.O. Sigel. She joined HIM as an independent group leader since early of 2023. Her research group is aiming to integrate wet lab (including chemical biology, structure biology, medicinal chemistry, multi-omics etc) and dry lab (including bioinformatics, virtual screening, molecular modeling and machine learning) to achieve early diagnosis and better treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. Dr. Haibo Wang has published 23 papers in Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, PNAS, Chemical Science, CCS Chemistry, PloS Biology and Chemical Society Reviews and other top-tier journals. She received many awards, including Overseas Young Talent Scheme in 2023, the special prize CAIA award in 2021, the Best Young Scientist Award etc. Dr. Haibo Wang also served as the guest editor of Frontiers in Chemistry.