Ping Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Precision Health Program.  He received his bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine from Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China following residency training in the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. Then he pursued doctoral research in Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at the Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Following his doctoral work and clinical fellow training, Dr. Wang moved to the United States to pursue postdoctoral research at the Molecular Imaging Laboratory in Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 
 
Peter (Ping) Wang

Member, Precision Health Program

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology

 Research interests

  • Theranostic molecular imaging on transplanted pancreatic islets and endogenous beta cells for type 1 diabetes treatment
  • Image-guided stem cell therapies for diabetes, liver dysfunction and cardiovascular diseases;
  • Novel imaging methods monitoring transplanted cells for diabetes, liver diseases and cancer.

Achievements

  • 1997 The Outstanding Graduate Award Shanxi Medical University Taiyuan, China
  • 2001 The Kwang-Hua Scholarship The Kwang-Hua Educational Foundation/Fudan University Shanghai, China
  • 2002 The Oriental Scholarship Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited/Fudan University Shanghai, China
  • 2011 The Runner-up for Young Investigator Award World Molecular Imaging Congress San Diego, CA, USA
  • 2011 Travel Award World Molecular Imaging Congress San Diego, CA, USA
  • 2013 The Harvard/MGH Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • 2013 Travel Award NIH/JDRF NIDDK Workshop on Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell Bethesda, MD, USA
  • 2013 Travel Award World Molecular Imaging Congress Savannah, GA, USA
  • 2013 The Top Reviewer Award Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology San Diego, CA, USA
  • 2015 The Excellence in Reviewing Award Clinical Imaging/ELSEVIER New York, NY, USA
  • 2014 The Top Reviewer Award Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology Atlanta, GA, USA
  • 2018, The Top Reviewer Award, Publons, Clarivate Analytics
  • 2020, The 2020 MTRAC AgBio Innovation Challenge Award, MTRAC AgBio Innovation Hub
  • 2021, Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative