Before joining ISB as assistant professor and as our newest faculty member this month, Dr. Wei Wei earned his Ph.D. from Caltech and was a faculty member at UCLA Medical School. Read on for a Q&A with Wei that delves into his research career to date, how research might change over the next decade, and his interests and hobbies when not focusing on science.
ISB: You are ISB’s newest faculty member. Welcome! What does this appointment mean to you? What attracted you to ISB?
Dr. Wei Wei: ISB is an ideal place for my career development. I am extremely excited to have the fortune to work in such an open, collaborative, supportive and interdisciplinary environment. Under the great vision and leadership of Drs. Lee Hood and Jim Heath, I look forward to leveraging the unique resources of ISB to perform groundbreaking research in single-cell medicine with the goal to cultivate new understandings in systems biomedicine and deliver transformative impacts on future health care.
