Xiaoyong Yang, PhD

Dr. Xiaoyong Yang is a professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine and Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine and a member of Yale Cancer Center, Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism, Yale Diabetes Research Center, and Yale Liver Center. Dr. Yang received B.S. from Nankai University, M.S. from Peking University, and Ph.D. from University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed his postdoctoral training with Dr. Ronald Evans at The Salk Institute. Dr. Yang works at the intersection of diabetes, obesity, and cancer. He has made pioneering contributions to deciphering biological information encoded in protein modifications. Dr. Yang has published highly cited articles in scientific journals such as Nature, Cell, and Cell Metabolism, and has been featured in public media outlets such as TIME, Daily Mail, NPR, and Scientific American. Dr. Yang is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Croucher Visiting Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He served as president of the Chinese American Diabetes Association and vice president of the Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association. He has been elected to The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.