On July 1, 2025, Duke alumnus Bangchen Wang, MD, PhD, joined Duke faculty as an assistant professor in Renal Pathology and Genitourinary Pathology. A graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine, Wang completed his residency at Duke in 2024 and his renal pathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medicine in June 2025.
During his residency, Dr Wang contributed to NIH-sponsored research that utilizes computational image analysis for the segmentation and characterization of kidney tissue. His contribution to these studies resulted in three peer-reviewed manuscripts. He also published two manuscripts as first author and was listed in studies conducted by investigators of the Cure Glomerulonephropathy (CureGN) and Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE) consortia.
“I elected to do my residency with Duke because it provides excellent training in both Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology and offers numerous research and teaching opportunities that I knew would help me succeed in any career I choose,” said Wang. “The faculty at Duke are dedicated to teaching and the well-being of residents. The residents are one big family who really support each other.”
Wang has received wide recognition of his excellent work:
- In 2025, he received the Gary S. Hill Renal Pathology Research Award from Johns Hopkins University for his work during fellowship training.
- In 2024, he received the Pathologist-in-Training Travel Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP).
- In November 2023, he presented a talk at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week meeting, where he received two accolades: he garnered the Renal Pathology Society’s Liliane Striker Young Investigator Award and was invited by the editor in chief of the journal Glomerular Disease to submit a paper.
- In 2023 and 2024, he received The Fred and Janet Sanfilippo Resident Research Award, which recognizes the Pathology resident or fellow who has demonstrated exceptional research effort and ability, either from a basic science or clinical research-related project or publication. Recipients are chosen by votes from residents, fellows and faculty.
- In March 2023, he won the First Prize for Excellence in Uropathology Research from the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) for the abstract he submitted to the USCAP Annual Meeting 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and three children in parks and museums, fishing in lakes, hiking in the mountains, and going to the beach.