Bo Wang

Dr. Bo Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology's College of Engineering and Science. His research bridges analytical chemistry, data science, and biological applications with a focus on metabolomics methodologies and their implementation across environmental and human health domains.

Dr. Wang's research interests center on computational methods development in metabolomics with applications spanning drug discovery of food compounds, environmental science, and cancer mechanism studies. His work includes instrumentation analysis using NMR and HPLC/MS on natural compound extractions and metabolomic profiling studies examining responses to various environmental exposures. A significant focus is finding links between cancer metabolomic profiling and plant extract compounds to identify synergistic combinations. He also investigates combinatorial effects of environmental toxins using NMR-based metabolomics approaches.

His recent publications demonstrate strong trends in integrating metabolomics with microbiome analysis to study gut-brain axis mechanisms, environmental toxin effects on marine organisms, and metabolic responses to dietary interventions. The research increasingly incorporates machine learning approaches for metabolomics data interpretation and emphasizes sex-specific responses in metabolic studies.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) LEAPS-MPS: $248,613 for Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Automatic NMR Metabolomics Data Processing (2021-2025)
• Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA): $200,000 for AI-Directed Tool Development for Pathogenic "Flesh-eating" Vibrio Bacteria Prediction and Control (2024-2027)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01: $85,184 for Microbial therapy improves gut permeability to reduce cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (2021-2026)
• NSF Collaborative Research: $168,690 for Therapeutic and Diagnostic System for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (2023-2028)

Dr. Wang actively mentors multiple PhD students including Julie Pollak (Metabolomics in human health), Moses Mayonu (Metabolomics data processing), Tammy Tran (Water pollutant treatment), and Saeedeh Babaee (Marine animal response to environmental toxins). His research group also includes several undergraduate students working on NMR-based metabolomics studies of milk products and tea extracts. The research is conducted through collaborations with institutions including University of South Florida, Florida State University, and Ohio University.