After dental and medical doctorate training at the Fourth Military Medical University of China, in Xi’an City, and post-doctoral work at Sichuan University and Loyola, Dr. Wang worked as an oral surgeon in the dental hospital of Wenzhou Medical University (WZMU), located on the southeastern coast of China coastline. Performing many oncologic as well as cleft lip and palate operations, Yanliang rose to become the director of the oral surgery department at WZMU. Having recently joined the Jones Lab as a post-doctoral fellow for a year away from oral surgery to pursue his interest in cancer research, Dr. Wang studies the genetics of osteosarcomagenesis using transposon-mediated forward genetic screens.