Kan Wang, a professor in agronomy and holder of the Global Professorship in Biotechnology, received the Outstanding Achievement in Research Award.
Wang has contributed to major breakthroughs in the area of plant transformation since she came to Iowa State in 1998. Her research explores genome editing technologies used to improve crop values.
She is currently a leader on a National Science Foundation $2.9 million project to develop the next generation of crop transformation tools and train crop geneticists to use them.
Read Q&A with Wang.
April 8, 2020