Yuhong Du's Biography

Yuhong Du, Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Emory University

Yuhong Du, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Assay Development and HTS at the Emory Chemical Biology Discovery center (ECBDC) and an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Du received her Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the National University of Singapore in 2003. Her Postdoctoral training was carried out in the Department of Pharmacology at Emory University, where she studied molecular mechanisms that control cell survival signaling. In 2008, Dr. Du was promoted to faculty as Assistant Professor. Dr. Du is a founding member of the ECBDC and has directed the design, acquisition, assembly, and operation of the ECBDC’s two advanced robotic screening systems to facilitate ultra-high throughput biochemical and image-based phenotypic screening. Dr. Du’s expertise includes innovative assay design and HTS/HCS assay development and implementation. She is also actively involved in educational programs on high throughput screening technologies and has chaired scientific sessions on assay development atvarious national conferences. Currently, Dr. Du oversees the daily operation of the high throughput screening program at Emory.