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Biography

Dan Yang obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Fudan University in 1985. Through the U.S.-China 浪花直播 Graduate Program, she obtained an M.A. from Columbia in 1988 under the direction of Professor Ronald Breslow. She then joined Professor Daniel Kahne鈥檚 group at Princeton and got her Ph.D. in 1991.

In the same year, she won a postdoctoral fellowship award from the 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 the University of Hong Kong in 1993 and was later promoted to a chair professor of chemistry and the 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 their relevant biological pathways; (2) design, characterization and biomedical applications of self-assembled synthetic ion channels and transporters; (3) using natural products and synthetic compounds as probes to investigate signal transduction processes in inflammation and cancer.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Organic 浪花直播 Frontiers