Jing Wang
Scientist
Regenerative Medicine
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jing Wang received her Bachelor of Medicine in China and then came to Canada for her graduate studies. She obtained her M.Sc. in Physiology at McGill University and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa. She recently completed her post-doctoral training with Dr. Freda Miller at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and then joined OHRI as a scientist and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. Her recently published work in Cell Stem Cell discovered that a widely-used human diabetes drug, metformin, is able to promote neurogenesis and improve the spatial learning ability of adult mice.
Research Interest
Neurogenesis, Biochemistry, Neurology
