Hao Wu

Dr. Wu received her pre-medical training at Peking University from 1982 to 1985 and studied Medicine at Peking Union Medical College from 1985 to 1988. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 1992 and performed postdoctoral training at Columbia University, She became an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 2003. In 2012, Dr. Wu moved to Harvard Medical School as the Asa and Patricia Springer Professor of Structural Biology, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Senior Investigator in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine of Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Wu has received a number of honors, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellowship, the Aaron Diamond postdoctoral fellowship, the Pew Scholar award, the Rita Allen Scholar award, New York Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Margaret Dayhoff Memorial Award from the Biophysical Society, the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from the Protein Society, the Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Cancer Immunology from Cancer Research Institute, AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award from the American Association of Immunologists, and the Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Wu serves on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Cancer Research Institute and the Editorial Board of Science and Cell. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Arts and Sciences.