Dr. Songlin Wang graduated with DDS and Ph.D. degrees in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiology from Peking University Health Science Center in 1989. After working for Capital Medical University, he became a visiting scholar at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1991 and a visiting scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Prof. Bruce Baum’s lab from 1996 to 1998 and then again in 2001.
He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dean of School of Medicine, South University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), President of China Anti Aging Promotion Association, Vice President of the Chinese Stomatological Association, and the Beijing Medical Association. He is also the Chief Professor and Chairman of the Beijing Laboratory of Oral Health, Capital Medical University. He has been inducted as an ad hominem fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
His main research interests are the regeneration and functional reconstruction of oral and maxillofacial defects and the diagnosis and treatment of salivary gland diseases.