 She later moved to Beijing and found work there before moving to the United States in 2001.She became a naturalized US citizen and worked as medical researcher both in Milwaukee and at the University of Utah until her death.According to David Cowhig, a U.S. Foreign Service officer at the Beijing embassy during the 1990s, Wang's research "was also the single most important source" that the United States had in understanding the AIDS epidemic in China, which was used in informing China–United States relations during the presidency of Bill Clinton.