Wang Aiping (born February 1958 in Baiquan County, Heilongjiang Province, China) is a Chinese pharmacologist and toxicologist. For over 20 years, Wang has researched drug and toxicity testing and has experience in new drug development. Since 2001, he has been Director of Drug Safety Evaluation and Research at the Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College and was also made General Manager of Technological development at Peking Union Medical College's Jianhao Pharmaceutical Technology Development Co., Ltd.
He has published papers, while also being responsible for four successful international patent applications. He has developed test methods, several of which are included in Pharmacology Research Methodology (People's Health Press, 2nd Edition, edited by Che Qi).
Education
In 1980, he graduated from the Medical Department of the Third Military Medical University. From 1981 to 1982, he studied at the Southwest China Normal University Department of Biology Education. In 1983, he completed a teacher training course in Genetics, at the Fudan University. In 1984 he attended the Fourth Military Medical University teaching workshops about Cell Biology. In 1988 he received a Master of Science, from Hangzhou University.
Research work
In 1989, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Military Medical Academy's Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, as a Research Associate Institute of Pharmacology Toxicology, The Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS). In 1995, he went to the University of Illinois, Chicago School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, as Toxicology studies visiting scholar. In 1996, he was Deputy Director of the laboratory at the National Center of Biomedical Analysis of Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis and Deputy Director of the Military Medical Sciences, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Toxicology Department. From 2001 to date he was appointed Director and researcher of Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, at the Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing.
Current positions held
He is the Associate Director of the National Technical Committee for the Biological Testing Standardization of Medical Devices; Director of the China Environmental Mutagen Society; Director of the Teratogenetics Specialist Committee; Associate Director of the Genetoxicity Specialist Committee; Director of the Chinese Society of Toxicology; Executive Director of the Beijing Environmental Mutagen Society; specialist for the Committee of the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars; specialist for the State Education Ministry; and member of the SFDA Specialist Database.
He also serves as the Committee Chairman of the Chinese Environmental Mutagen Society of birth defects prevention; Vice-chairman of the Chinese Society of Toxicology, for the Committee of Reproductive Toxicology; Executive Director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Mutagen Society; SFDA GLP inspection expert; Member of experts for Drug Evaluation; SFDA expert review of the library members medicines and SFDA expert reviewer of medical devices library members.
He was a former member of the Military Drug Evaluation Specialist Database, and former member of the Specialist Committee of the Medical Science Committee of General Logistics Department of the PLA.
Publications
He is an editor of Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis and Mutagenesis; Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases; China Pharmacology Communications; Pharmaceutical Technology magazine; and the Distortion of cancer mutations magazine. He is also Vice president of science and technology magazine Trends.
Wang has published 123 research papers in Chinese journals at various levels of academic expertise; 106 as the first author, and non-first author of 17.
Internationally, he has published 6 papers in various co-authorships with various combinations of Toxicologists Hongtao Jin, Zibo Zhang, Zhiqiao Wang, Jinfeng Wei, Qinglin Zhang, Chunqian Huang, Fang Fang, Wei Liu, Yan Liu.
His articles have appeared in Biological Evaluation of Medical Devices Implementation Guide, pre-clinical safety evaluation of new drugs and Practice, drug pharmacology and Pharmacology Research Methodology, and Contemporary pharmacology.