Mengya Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Iowa in Iowa city, Iowa. She received her a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Sichuan University of China, and a Master of Science in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Kansas, USA. Her current research is focused on the role of the cerebellar calcitonin gene-related peptide in migraine.