Daniel I.C. Wang, M.S., Ph.D.

Daniel I.C. Wang received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1959 from MIT.  He obtained his M.S. degree in Biochemical Engineering in 1961 also from MIT.  He continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1963.  He served two years in the U.S. Army and returned to MIT as an Assistant Professor in 1965.  Professor Wang founded the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center through the NSF Engineering Research Center Initiative and acted as its Director from 1985 to 1998. He held the Chevron Professorship from 1985 to 1996. He was subsequently named as an Institute Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT in 1996.  In 2000, Professor Wang was given the Temasek Professorship at the National University of Singapore where he will devote part of his time to help Singapore in their biomedical science research and development. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000 and an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the Catholic University Valparaiso, Chile in 2002.

Professor Wang has received awards from the American Chemical Society (Marvin J. Johnson Award, and David Perlman Memorial Lecturer). Thirteen of his past graduate students have received the W.H. Peterson Award from the American Chemical Society for their outstanding papers at its annual meetings. He has also received awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award, Institute Lecturer and William H. Walker Award).  He was given the Amgen Award in Biochemical Engineering from the Engineering Foundation. He has also received the Asia-Pacific Biochemical Engineering Award. Professor Wang has received the Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award, three times, from MIT.

Professor Wang has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Academia Sinica (Republic of China) and International Institute of Biotechnology.  He had been invited as Plenary and Opening Lecturer to a number of international conferences and symposia including countries such as United States of America, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Germany, New Zealand, Italy, People’s Republic of China, Chile and Mexico.  He has consulted for over 50 companies world-wide and is on the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Boards on a number of public and private companies.

Professor Wang has authored and co-authored 5 books, over 230 publications and 15 patents.  He resides and has resided as editorial board members for 8 scientific journals.  He has advised over 80 Ph.D. thesis candidates and over 50 M.S. thesis candidates.  His present research areas include animal cell biotechnology, nanotechnology in bioprocesses, glycosylation in glycoprotein biopharmaceuticals, enzyme biocatalysis, protein stabilization and renewable resource utilization.

His international activities include membership on the International Advisory Committee of the Biotechnology Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Strategic Review Board on Biotechnology (Chairman) in the Republic of China, International Advisory Committee of the National University of Singapore, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR of Singapore and a member of SAB for the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Science, A*STAR of Singapore.  He is an honorary professor at the Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China University of Science and Technology and Peking Union Medical College in the People’s Republic of China.