Prof. Wang Kun is a distinguished professor at Institute for Translational Medicine, Qingdao University. She studied cell biology and got the Ph. D from Institute for Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. In 2010 Prof. Wang was an assistant principal investigator in the Institute for Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. And she became an associated principal investigator in 2012. She moved in 2014 to the Institute for Translational Medicine at Qingdao University where she currently holds the position of the dean of Center for Developmental Cardiology and distinguished professor. Prof. Wang received the National Natural Science Fund for Outstanding Youth Foundation in 2015 and the Shandong Natural Science Fund for distinguished Youth Foundation in 2016. Prof. Wang was elected as a member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association in 2014. She is advisor, editorial board member of several scientific journals and also a usual reviewer from several editorial committees and specialized journals. She has published several research works on her research field.

Cardiac molecular biology; Cardiac cell biology; Heart failure; Cardiac hypertrophy; Apoptosis; Autophagy; Necrosis; Translational medicine; Mitochondrial biology; non-coding RNAs.