Wei Yang (biologist)

Wei Yang (Chinese: 杨薇; pinyin: Yáng Wēi; born 1963) is a Chinese-American structural biologist. She is a distinguished investigator at the National Institutes of Health and was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Wei Yang

Life

Yang was born in Shanghai, China in 1963.[1] She entered Fudan University in 1980, before transferring to Stony Brook University in the United States in 1983, where she earned her B.A. degree.[2][3] She earned her M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1991) in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University.[4]

Since 1995 she has been a senior scientist in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Institutes of Health. Her research mainly focuses on DNA mismatch repair, translesion synthesis, and V(D)J recombination.[2][4]

In 2011, the Protein Society honored Yang with the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013[2] and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.[4] She has naturalized as a US citizen.[2]

References

  1. "杨薇" (in Chinese). Fudan University. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  2. "Wei Yang". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  3. "美国科学院女院士杨薇:事业家庭可以双赢". Sciencenet. 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  4. "Dr. Wei Yang". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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