Xiaodong Wang is really the big name in the apoptosis field. He got his B.S
in Biology in Beijing Normal University in the middle 80's. and Ph.D in
Biochemistry at UT Dallas-Southwestern Medical Center. He was trained as a
postdoctoral fellow in Goldstein's lab at Southwestern. There his work was
concentrated on sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs), and
got a few Cell papers.
Then he was an assitant then associate professor of biochemstry at Southwestern
. He is basically a bioche