She was the first Asian woman on the Rockefeller University graduate programme and achieved her Ph.D. degree in 1979 with a dual specialization in Biochemistry and Immunology.

[2] She then joined the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as the youngest faculty member, principal investigator, and head of the molecular immunology laboratory.

[3] In 1985, Wang and her husband Nean Hu founded United Biomedical, Inc. in New York - the company’s main focus is on medicine and vaccine development.

[9] In 2009, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Grand Challenges Exploration Grants to Wang for the Synthetic Peptides to Inhibit HIV Entry program.

[11] In 2021, Wang was part of a court case which concerned the ownership of UBI, in particular, possible breach of contractual agreements and misuse of authority positions.