Wei Wei, Ph.D. Principal InvestigatorDr. Wei Wei is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). He earned his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his M.S. degree from the UC - San Diego. Dr. Wei then went on to obtain his Ph.D. from Caltech, where he was the sole recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize in 2014 – the highest honor bestowed upon a Caltech Ph.D. graduate. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Wei joined the UCLA School of Medicine as a research faculty member. In 2018, he transitioned to ISB as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment (CARE) Distinguished Researchers Award in 2019.
Dr. Wei has been serving as either director or project lead in various nationwide cancer research consortium-funded projects. Some of these initiatives include the NCI-funded ISB/UCLA Physical Sciences in Oncology Program (PS-OP), ISB/UW Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program, ISB/UCLA Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) program, and ISB/Yale/UCLA Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC) program. |
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