Dr. M Wang is the Principle Investigator of projects funded by RGC-GRF, ITC, HMRF and NSFC. She was elected as the one of the six board members of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) (2021-2023). Dr. M Wang serves as a Council Member of the Chinese Bioinformatics Society (preparatory) since 2019, and a Review Editor of Human Genetics (Springer Nature) since 2018. She is the recipient of the Research Excellence Award 2022-23 and Young Researcher Award 2022 in CUHK. Dr. M Wang is awarded with the highly competitive 2023 NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (HK & Macau).

Research Interests
Human genome statistical genetics: prediction methods for complex human diseases using omics genetic and genomic data, statistical methods for genetic interactions, epistasis, and association testing

Virus evolution: developing new and practical methods for predicting evolutionary trend, evolutionary rate, prediction of key mutations, codon optimization, epitope screening, vaccine antigen optimization, influenza, SARS-CoV-2

Genetic Epidemiology: GWAS of Alzheimer’s disease in Chinese population, virus genetic epidemiology studies