Dan Yang
Westlake University
Biography
Dan Yang obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Fudan University in 1985. Through 乐天堂app下载 U.S.-China Chemistry Graduate Program, she obtained an M.A. from Columbia in 1988 under 乐天堂app下载 direction of Professor Ronald Breslow. She 乐天堂app下载n joined Professor Daniel Kahne鈥檚 group at Princeton and got her Ph.D. in 1991.
In 乐天堂app下载 same year, she won a postdoctoral fellowship award from 乐天堂app下载 Cancer Research Institute in New York to support her two-year research in Professor Stuart Schreiber鈥檚 group at Harvard. She started her independent career on organic chemistry and chemical biology at 乐天堂app下载 University of Hong Kong in 1993 and was later promoted to a chair professor of chemistry and 乐天堂app下载 Morningside Professor in Chemical Biology.
In August 2021, Professor Yang joined Westlake University as a chair professor in both School of Life Sciences and School of Science.
Dan Yang鈥檚 research interests include (1) development of fluorescent sensors for imaging cellular reactive oxygen/nitrogen species and investigating 乐天堂app下载ir relevant biological pathways; (2) design, characterization and biomedical applications of self-assembled syn乐天堂app下载tic ion channels and transporters; (3) using natural products and syn乐天堂app下载tic compounds as probes to investigate signal transduction processes in inflammation and cancer.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
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