(Source: University of Connecticut) Although her classes were rarely full, and were seldom taught by an actual schoolteacher, Li Wang still showed up to school on time, every day. Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology Li Wang is a pioneer of new knowledge about the molecular biology and genetics of the liver and its diseases. (Christine Buckley/UConn Photo) It was China in early 1970's, and Wang's future had already been prescribed: Like the other students, she would graduate high school, then go from her home city of Luoyang to the countryside to learn agriculture from seasoned farmers. The Chinese universities had been closed for as long as Wang could remember. But still her parents...
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