Liping Wang - Biography#
Prof. Liping Wang's research contributions focus on: 1) the dissection of subcortical neural circuit and cellular mechanisms governing innate behaviors such as fear, feeding, and sleep, by integrating advanced animal behavior analysis techniques and optogenetics-based neural modulation tools developed by his team. 2) Elucidating structural and functional interactions between the central nervous system and peripheral systems under physiological and pathological conditions, particularly their relevance to mental disorder comorbidities. These discoveries provide critical structural and functional evidence for the "survival circuitry" in organisms, demonstrating that the brain employs conserved and universal strategies to coordinate emotional behavioral outputs and maintain systemic homeostasis.
From an interdisciplinary perspective bridging neurobiology and integrative physiology, his findings offer novel insights into the brain-body interaction in a holistic view. To date, he has published over 130 research papers in journals including Nature (2007,2019), Nature Methods (2006), Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2023), Neuron (2026a, 2026b,2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019), JCI (2020), Nature Communications (2021, 2016a, 2016b, 2015a, 2015b, 2014) and others.
Prof. Liping Wang received his Ph.D. in medical neuroscience from Charite -Universitatsmedizin Berlin and completed postdoctoral training at the Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University before joining SIAT. He has been the founding director of BCBDI at SIAT since 2014.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
- 2005 - 2008 Stanford University, Postdoctoral fellow/Clinical researcher
- 2002 - 2005 Charite -Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Ph.D. Medical Neurosciences
POSITIONS/EMPLOYMENT IN SOCIETIES
- 2023 - present The vice president of Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS)
- 2023 - present The director of Collaborative Innovation of Science and Technology Committee of Chinese Neuroscience Society
- 2022 - present The president of Shenzhen Society for Neuroscience
- 2018 - present The chairman of Autonomic Nerve Professional Committee of Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (CAPS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Advisory board of Neuron (2023)
- Associate editor of Neuroscience Bulletin
