Researcher

Yue Wang obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1988. In 1989, he joined the A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 1993, he was promoted to Senior Scientist, where he led a group studying and harnessing equatorial microbial diversity to discover novel bioactive compounds. In 2010, he was promoted to Research Director, whose research focused on studying the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. On 01 April 2022, he joined A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs as a Senior Principal Investigator to continue his research on fungal pathogens. For his outstanding research efforts, Wang was awarded the President’s Science Award in 2012.