He is a Harvard University Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology.
He was elected as an academician of the Taiwan Academia Sinica in 1982 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He was named the Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard in 1988.
Wang discovered DNA topoisomerases[1] (or local enzymes) and proposed a mechanism for their operation in the 1970s.
He also studied the configuration (or topology) of DNA, an approach that proved fruitful in helping to explain how the structure of the double helix coils and relaxes.