Jason Ku Wang, MD is a biotech investor at Paradigm BioCapital in NYC.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Jason is the son of immigrants from China’s Hubei Province who came to the United States following the Cultural Revolution. With his father in residency and mother working part-time and studying at night, Jason was sent to live with his grandparents in Wuhan, China for the first four years of his life. Rejoining his parents in Chicago, and then St. Louis, before finally settling in Los Angeles, Jason grew to appreciate his heritage and being a New American amid the vibrant immigrant communities of the city.
Inspired by his father’s journey from barefoot doctor to US physician, Jason developed an early interest in medicine. While at Stanford University, he also found a passion for computer science and statistics. Working with Professors Ron Dror and Jonathan Chen, he spent his undergraduate exploring problems in computational structural biology and clinical informatics. The author or co-author of over 20 publications in journals including Nature and Nature Communications, Jason was awarded the Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement, given annually to five to ten undergraduates.
Jason received his MD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology program. He also holds a Masters of Management Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar.
