[2] Wang joined the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University in December 1995 as the director of the newly established Plant Transformation Facility.
[4] In 2007, she collaborated with Brian Trewyn, Francois Torney, and Victor Lin to become the first scientists to use nanotechnology to penetrate rigid plant cell walls and deliver DNA and chemicals with precise control.
[5] Wang later demonstrated the ability to deliver proteins and DNA into plant cells simultaneously using mesoporous silica nanoparticles.
[6] As a result of her research, she was honored with one of the 2015 Iowa Women of Innovation Award.
[7] As a full professor, Wang received a three-year, $830,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to "develop a suite of technological tools that could allow scientists to develop yams with improved yields, nutritional value and better resistance to stresses.