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Anna Wang Roe (born 1965) is an American neuroscientist, professor of neuroscience at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, and the director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology (ZIINT) at the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Career
Anna Wang Roe obtained her B.A. cum laude from Harvard University in 1984, majoring in biochemistry with special field of interest in neurobiology. Further, she was awarded Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in 1991, under the supervision of Mriganka Sur. During her doctoral studies, she developed an experimental paradigm known as the 'rewired ferret' for studying the development and plasticity of the brain. After obtaining Ph.D., she went on to undertake post-doctoral training with Dr. Torsten Wiesel and Dr. Daniel Y Ts'o at Rockefeller University (1991-1993) and Baylor College of Medicine (1993-1995), where she studied the functional organization of the primary and secondary visual cortical areas of the primate brain using Intrinsic Signal Optical Imaging. In 1996, as a visiting scholar at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, she studied the visual system of marmosets and flying foxes, for seven months.

Roe returned to the United States in 1996 where she started her first faculty position as an assistant professor (tenure track) in the Department of Neurobiology at the Yale School of Medicine. Her laboratory moved to Vanderbilt University in 2003, where she worked as a professor Psychology, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering until 2015. At Vanderbilt, her research was primarily on the visual and somatosensory system of primates. From 2016, Roe was appointed as a professor of Neuroscience at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at the Oregon Health & Science University.

In 2013, Roe founded the 'Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience and Technology(ZIINT)' at the Zhejiang University, which focuses on fundamental research in the fields of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, and neurotechnology. She is the founding director of ZIINT, co-Director of Zhejiang University-Siemens Joint Brain Imaging Research Center, and also holds a professorship in the Zhejiang University School of Medicine.

Roe also serves as the associate editor of multiple scientific journals like Neurophotonics, NeuroImage, Trends in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. She has previously held memberships in the SMI and IFCN of the NIH study sections.

Awards and Honours

 * 2015: AAAS Fellow
 * 2013: 1000 Faculty Award (China)
 * 1998: David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship
 * 1997: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
 * 1996: Whitehall Foundation Research Fellowship

Selected Publications

 * Roe, A.W., S.L. Pallas, J.O. Hahm, and M. Sur. A map of visual space induced in primary auditory cortex. Science 250: 818–820, 1990.
 * Sur, M., P.E. Garraghty, and A.W. Roe. Experimentally induced visual projections into auditory thalamus and cortex. Science 242: 1437–1441, 1988.
 * Pallas, SL; Roe, AW; Sur, M. "Visual projections induced into the auditory pathway of ferrets. I. Novel inputs to primary auditory cortex (AI) from the LP/pulvinar complex and the topography of the MGN-AI projection". The Journal of comparative neurology. 298 (1): 50–68, 1990.
 * Roe, AW; Pallas, SL; Kwon, YH; Sur, M. "Visual projections routed to the auditory pathway in ferrets: receptive fields of visual neurons in primary auditory cortex". Journal of neuroscience. 12 (9): 3651–64, 1992.
 * Friedman, RM; Chen, LM; Roe, AW. "Modality maps within primate somatosensory cortex". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101 (34): 12724–9, 2004.