Professor Yibin Wang

Dr. Yibin Wang is currently the Tanoto Foundation Professor in Diabetes and Director of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases at DukeNUS Medical School, Singapore. He is also a Professor in Medicine at Duke University, Durham, USA. Dr. Wang’s research mainly focuses on genetic basis and molecular mechanisms of heart failure and metabolic disorders, with more than 280 peer-reviewed publications in many leading journals in the field. His main research accomplishments include dissection of stress-signaling in heart diseases, discovery novel regulators of cardiometabolic regulation through systems genetic approaches, and more recently on amino acid signaling and regulation, and nutrient signaling in cardiometabolic diseases. Dr. Wang received an Established Investigator Award from American Heart Association and was the Thomas Smith Memorial Lecturer at 2016 AHA Scientific Session, as well as the 2023 Basic Research Prize from AHA.