Yang Yungui

Biography

Dr YANG Yungui is a professor at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr YANG received his BS degree in Microbiology from FuDan University in 1995 and PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica/Shanghai Research Center of Biotechnology, CAS in 2000 with professors YANG Shengli and GONG Yi. He performed his postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Dr WANG Zhaoqi (International Agency for Research on Cancer-IARC, 2000-2003) and Dr Tomas Lindahl-2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize Laureate (Clare Hall Laboratories, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute，2005-2008). He had served as a staff scientist at IARC from 2003-2005. His research interest is to dissect the roles and biological significance of epitranscriptomic RNA modifications with particular focus on dynamic RNA methylations (i.e. N6-methyladenosine-m6A).

Research Interest

Cancer Research, Mammalian RNA, Nature Chemical Biology