Lei Wang
Unnatural Amino Acids to Investigate Biological Processes
Unnatural Amino Acids to Investigate Biological Processes
Contact Information
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
Assistant Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Office: TPC/S
Phone:
Email: lewang@ucsd.edu
Web: www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty_details.php?id=67
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, UCSD
Assistant Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Office: TPC/S
Phone:
Email: lewang@ucsd.edu
Web: www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty_details.php?id=67
Education
2002 Ph.D, Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley
2002 Ph.D, Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley
Awards and Academic Honors
2008
New Faculty Award, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
2007
Career Development Award, Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation
2006
Searle Scholar
2006
Beckman Young Investigator
2004
Top Young Innovator, MIT Technology Review TR100
2003-05
Merck Fellow, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
2003
Young Scientist Award, Amersham Biosciences and the journal Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2002
Collegiate Inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Primary Research Area
Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary interests
Bioorganic
Cellular Biochemistry
Biophysics
Cellular Biochemistry
Biophysics
Selected Publications
- Wang W, Takimoto JK, Louie GV, Baiga TJ, Noel JP, Lee KF, Slesinger PA, Wang L, "Genetically encoding unnatural amino acids for cellular and neuronal studies." Nat. Neurosci., (2007), 10, 1063-72.
- Wang L, Jackson WC, Steinbach PA, Tsien RY, "Evolution of new nonantibody proteins via iterative somatic hypermutation.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2004, Vol. 101, Issue 48, 16745-9 [View Abstract]
- Wang L, Brock A, Herberich B, Schultz PG, "Expanding the genetic code of Escherichia coli.", Science, 2001, Vol. 292, Issue 5516, 498-500 [View Abstract]