Gregory Wyant received his B.S. in biochemistry from Northeastern University. He later received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute, where he developed novel methods for studying organelle metabolism and its relation to the growth regulatory pathway mTORC1. Following his Ph.D., he joined William G. Kaelin at Dana Farber Cancer Institute to pursue several questions related to oxygen sensing in the cardiovascular system.

Wyant is an assistant investigator in the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. The scientific mission of the Wyant Lab is to understand the mechanism by which key physiological inputs, such as oxygen, nutrients, mechanical stretch and electrical signals that regulate heart, skeletal muscle and brain function.