Qiong Wang joined the firm's Austin office in 2008.  She works as a technical advisor for the firm's intellectual property and technology practice group, with an extensive technical background in biochemistry, molecular biology and characterization of genetically modified animals.

• "James E. Beall II Award in Neuroscience," National Student Research Forum (2007)
• "Connie Lea Lerea Travel Grant," Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting (2006)
• "Robert A. Welch Predoctoral Fellowship," The Welch Foundation (2003)

• Wang, Q., Zhang, X., Zhang, L., He, F., Zhang, G., Jamrich, M., Wensel, T.G., "Activation-dependent hindrance of photoreceptor G protein diffusion by lipid microdomains," Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press.
• Wang, Q., Wensel T.G., "Biochemical Characterization of RGS9-1," Signal Transduction in the Retina (Methods in Signal Transduction Series). CRC press, in press.
• Gross, A.K., Wang, Q., Wensel, T.G., "Regulation of Photoresponses by Phosphorylation," Chap. 6 in Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception. Humana Press, in press.

• "Phosphorylation of Phototransduction GAP RGS9-1 Depends on the alpha isoform of Protein Kinase C," National Student Research Forum, Galveston, April 2007
• "PKCalpha Regulation of GPCR Response Kinetics via RGS9-1 and RGS7," Gulf Coast Consortium for Membrane Biology Symposium, Houston, October 2004

2007 - Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2002 - B.S., Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China