Dr. Ming-Wei Wang is a Chinese pharmacologist and professor affiliated with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has served as Director of the National Center for Drug Screening and has been involved in research on pharmacology, drug discovery, and receptor biology. Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1989. After working in medical practice in Shanghai, he joined the faculty of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medical in 2001. According to his official SIMM biography, he has published more than 220 scientific papers in English and has received 63 granted domestic and international patents.