Yang Yang

Yang Yang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) in San Diego, California. Some key details about them:

Education

• PhD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, where they developed a comprehensive protein expression profile based on proteomics data of 108 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients1
• MS in Biotechnology from Georgetown University1
• BS from China Agricultural University1

Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) since December 2021, studying the KRAS interactome and its regulatory network in non-small cell lung cancer1
• PhD Researcher at Georgetown University, where they quantified the abundance of candidate proteins in saliva, blood and tumor tissues from HNSCC patients using ELISA and analyzed data from Mass Spectrometry to evaluate the performance of proteins as biomarkers1

Honors & Awards

• Student Research Day Oral & Poster Presentation Winners from Georgetown University School of Medicine in October 20181
• Society for Glycobiology Annual Meeting Travel Award in 2018 and 2019 to attend and present at the annual meetings1

Yang Yang is passionate about biomedical science, especially oncology research, and is devoted to studying the biology of cancer for over 10 years. Their research has focused on glycobiology in cancer, particularly the network of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in head and neck cancer.1