Wang Lab
Welcome
We are a discovery-driven research group working at the interface between organismal biology, bioengineering, and statistical physics. We combine quantitative imaging, functional genomics, and physical modeling to understand the fundamental rules that control collective cell behaviors to optimize tissue regeneration, adaptation, and evolution.
Watch an introductory video about a model system and some problems we work on.
Group Updates
Jun. 2026. Chew Chai's discovery of a new immune cell type, ruptoblast, is published in Cell and highlighted by Stanford Report and Nature News.
May 2026. Jeongwoong Yoon receives a Bio-X Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.
Apr. 2026. Our collaboration with Nate Cira and Steve Palumbi to engineer symbiotic algae is supported by Revive & Restore through its Climate Resilience program. (read more)
Sept. 2025. We have launched a collaboration with Lauren O'Connell to construct whole-body cell type transcriptomic atlases across six tetrapod species, as part of CZI’s Billion Cell Project.
Jan. 2025. Our collaboration with Xiaojing Gao and Alice Ting to develop novel neural activity reporters is funded by Bachrach Family Foundation. (read more)
Sept. 2024. Chew Chai is named a Siebel Scholar. (read more)
Sept. 2024. The Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program funds two of our collaborative projects: to develop engineered protein sensors for neural circuit discovery with Xiaojing Gao and Alice Ting, and to understand deer antler regeneration to enhance human bone repair with Peter Yang and Stanley Qi. (read more)
Support
We thank our sponsors (current and past): Beckman Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Bio-X, Bachrach Family Foundation, Baxter Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Human Frontier Science Program, Hellman Fellows Fund, NIH, NSF, Revive & Restore, Volkswagen Foundation, Woods Institute, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.