Yang Yang's Biography

Yang Yang, Associate, Yale University School of Medicine

Yang Yang received her Ph.D. from Nankai University, China, in 2009. In 2008, she was rewarded a Ph.D. Candidate Joint Program Scholarship by China Scholarship Council. She completed her Ph.D research training at the Center of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA. Her Ph.D research focused on the critical role of Klf4 in embryonic stem cell self-renewal and somatic cell reprogramming. She started her postdoctoral training on cancer stem cell research at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University in November, 2009. She has authored 10 scientific publications.