Kan Wang

PARTNER

Dr. Kan Wang is a Global Professor of Biotechnology in Department of Agronomy and Co-Director of the Crop Bioengineering Center at Iowa State University, USA. She graduated with her BS in Biochemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She conducted her PhD study in Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, under the supervision of Drs. Marc Van Montagu (2013 World Food Prize Laureate) and late Jeff Schell, who led the first group that discovered and engineered Agrobacterium tumefaciens for plant genetic transformation. Dr. Wang spent 7 years in ICI seeds (now Syngenta) as a project leader in genetic transformation of corn and soybean. In 1996, she took a position at Iowa State University and established the first public crop transformation facility.

Email: kanwang@iastate.edu
Personal Website: https://www.cropbioengineering.iastate.edu/
Reference: https://www.iastate.edu/