Professor Hongyan Wang 

Professor Hongyan Wang is Professor and Deputy Director of the Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders Program at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. Her lab focuses on understanding molecular mechanisms underlying the proliferation, asymmetric division, and differentiation of Drosophila neural stem cells. She is among the first few researchers who established Drosophila neuroblasts as a new model for studying stem cell self-renewal and brain tumor formation. She is a member of the Asia-Pacific Drosophila Board and recipient of the Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award, and an elected EMBO Associate Member.