Xiaoyan Wang

Xiaoyan Wang, Ph.D. joined OTM in 2021, where she is responsible for assessing, marketing, and licensing the intellectual property developed by faculty, staff, and students at UTHealth. Xiaoyan is a registered Patent Agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Before joining OTM, Xiaoyan received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. She went to Texas A&M University at college station to pursue her graduate study in Chemistry, where she initiated and developed a novel method to investigate the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome pathway of protein degradation, aiming at drug discovery. After receiving her Ph.D. degree in 2016, Xiaoyan joined the University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) as a postdoctoral fellow, focusing on the structural investigation of major DNA repair pathway-related protein complexes targeting anti-cancer drug discovery. While serving as a postdoc at MDACC, Xiaoyan became an intern for their Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), where she assisted with the evaluation of patentability and commercialization potential for new inventions created at MDACC, as well as communication with potential licensees for MDACC properties.