Weiwei Dang is an assistant professor of molecular and human genetics and the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine. His research lab uses yeast replicative aging as a model, together with human primary cell lines and adult stem cells, to study evolutionarily conserved epigenetic mechanisms during aging and development of age-related cancers.

Dang holds a PhD in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He completed BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Peking University.