Dr. Songlin Wang graduated with DDS and Ph.D. degrees in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiology (supervised by Prof. Zhaoju Zou) from Peking University Health Science Center in 1989. After working for a while at 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, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), 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. He has performed pioneering work on the discovery of Sialin (SLC17A5) as a nitrate transporter in the cell membrane and the biological functions of nitrate; restoration of salivary hypofunction; development of dental pulp stem cells as a new stem cell drug; regeneration of tooth and periodontal tissues; and discovery of the mammalian tooth replacement mechanism. These achievements have been included in many international academic monographs, textbooks, and invited reviews. He has authored more than 279 peer-reviewed articles in PNAS, EMBO J, Blood, and Nature Communications, among others, and 16 review articles. So far, he has edited 22 books and book chapters.
