Bryan S. Wang

Bryan Wang headshot
Teaching Professor, Biology
Coordinator, Honors Program
Luerssen Science Building, 212F

Bryan Wang joined Penn State Berks in 2012 after a scientific career at MIT, Harvard University, Praecis Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson. He has published and patented research involving artificial evolution and X-ray crystallography of novel transcription factors, development of methods in combinatorial biology, and application of phage display for drug discovery. He also has published fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in numerous literary journals.

Professor Wang teaches and co-teaches laboratory and lecture courses in biology and biochemistry and molecular biology as well as interdisciplinary honors courses that explore and seek to sustain the natural world, a focus of his scholarly work and professional service.

As a teacher and coordinator of the honors programs at Penn State Berks, he strives to help shape all students who would shape the world in positive ways, great and small.

  • Ph.D., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Molecular and Cell Biology, Penn State University