Christine Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Program
Cancer-Focused Research
Dr. Wang is a biomaterials engineer and an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on advancing active nanomaterials to tackle health-related challenges through interdisciplinary approaches from material science, synthetic chemistry, and experimental biology. She develops materials using a broad spectrum of natural or synthetic biomolecular building blocks, each designed with precise sequence, structure, and properties for specific biological and medical applications. Previously, Dr. Wang engineered synthetic biomarkers, a modular nanoparticle platform that detects aberrant protease activity, for multiplexed lung cancer diagnostics via exhaled breath. This effort aligns with her broader research in biomaterials for cancer and metabolic disease diagnostics, amyloid pathology, and structural biology. Her goal is to apply these materials for early detection and to perturb cancer progression. Currently, she collaborates with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care to develop targeted therapeutic delivery systems with goals to ultimately translate the novel approaches into clinical applications.