Wang Yuan, female, Han nationality, was born in 1939.
Wang's study has focused on hepatitis B virus gene expression and hepatitis gene engineering bacteria. The Chinese Academy of Sciences awarded her two first-grade prizes for scientific and technological progress, as well as a first-grade prize in Shanghai. In 1992, she won the Beijing International Invention Exhibition Gold Prize; she has also been awarded the Prominent Woman Invention Prize by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Wang serves as a research fellow and doctoral student tutor of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.