Rong (Rose) Wang

Assistant Research Professor

Dr. Rose Wang is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences. Her research focuses on two major areas: the early detection of oral cancer, and the application of machine learning/artificial intelligence to dental, oral, and craniofacial research. Dr. Wang received her PhD in Health Sciences and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School in 2005. During her 10 years in industry as a chief scientist, she developed and commercialized internationally patented coupling-antenna technology for health protection. Since joining UMKC in 2018, she published research and review papers in peer-reviewed journals including Dental Materials, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Diagnostics and Scientific Reports.

She is a Review Editor for Frontier in Oral Health and an ad hoc reviewer for Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Analyst, Clinical Oral Investigations, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, and International Journal of Polymer Sciences. Dr. Rose Wang is a mentee for the Class of 2022-2023 of the AADOCR MIND the Future program. She is the Principal Investigator for an NIH R21 grant titled “Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging and Machine Learning for Risk Stratification of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia” (01/2023 – 12/2024), and an UMKC Funding for Excellence grant titled “Decoding Bio-Spectroscopy with Artificial Intelligence for Early Oral Cancer Detection” (01/2023-12/2023).

She is the inventor of two patents in provisional application by the UMKC office of technology commercialization. She has mentored and coached summer scholars, MS/PhD students and postdoctoral fellows at the UMKC School of Dentistry.

Dr. Rose Wang’s Published Work can be found at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1607-8094

Phone: 816-235-6768
wangrong@umkc.edu