Congratulations to Yi-Hui Wang for receiving a Presidential Fellowship
Congratulations to Yi-Hui Wang for receiving a Presidential Fellowship in the 2025–2026 competition. The Presidential Fellowship, the highest award given by the Graduate School for outstanding scholarship, supports recipients during the final year of their dissertation work. Each year, only about 30 of Ohio State’s more than 11,000 graduate students are selected for this honor.
Yi-Hui earned her BS from China Medical University and her MS in Biochemical Sciences from National Taiwan University, two of the top universities in Taiwan. She is currently working with Prof. Wen Tang in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology, where she discovered a novel factor involved in the biogenesis of piRNAs. Yi-Hui is also a former Center for RNA Biology Fellow and previously served as president of the RNA Biology Student Organization.
You can read more about her work in her 2025 Nucleic Acids Research paper, "An AT-hook transcription factor promotes transcription of histone, spliced-leader, and piRNA clusters," co-authored with Hannah Hertz and Ben Pastore (also an OSBP student and Presidential Fellow):