Dr. Yang holds multiple NIH grants and is a translational cancer researcher who specializes in the development of novel cancer imaging and targeted therapeutic agents. Her research experiences include tumor immunology, cancer stem cells, cancer gene therapy, apoptosis resistance, molecular targeted cancer therapy, nanoparticle imaging probes, and theranostic nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy and imaging. Dr. Yang is a member of the Cancer Cell Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and holds professional memberships with American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Nanomedicine, and National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer. Her research projects focus on the development of novel cancer nanotechnologies and imaging methods to address the major challenges in clinical oncology of early cancer detection, targeted drug delivery, overcoming drug resistance, assessment of therapeutic response using non-invasive imaging, and image-guided surgery.

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• MD, Department of Medicine, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, 1978-1983

• Master of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China, 1983-1986

• PhD, Program in Molecular and Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1988-1993

• Research Associate, Department of Immunology, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, Beijing, China, 1986-1988

• Postdoctoral Associate, Brown University-Rhode Island Hospital, 1993

• Research Associate and Director of Animal Study, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1993-1995

• Research Associate, Emory, 1995-1996

• Research Fellow, Group Leader For Anti-Angiogenesis Pre-Clinical Study, Aventis Gencell, Hayward, CA, 1998-1999

• Avon Scholar Award for Breast Cancer Research, 2001-2002

• Honorary Professor, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, 2011

• Top Reviewer, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2011

• Inducted into Emory's Millipub Club for being co-author of a paper that was cited more than 1,000 times in the literature, 2015

• Inducted into the 1% Club of Emory University, which recognizes faculty whose NIH proposals have been ranked in the top 1% or more by NIH reviewers, 2015

• Editorial Board, Apoptosis

• Editorial Board, Breast Cancer – Targets and Therapy

• Associate Editorial Board, American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

• Editorial Board, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research

• Editorial Board, Theranostics

• American Association for Cancer Research

• National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer

• American Society of Nanomedicine

• World Molecular Imaging Society

• Development of multifunctional nanoparticles for targeted and image-guided cancer therapy

• Novel targeted MR imaging probes for cancer detection

• Targeted nanoparticle drug delivery approaches overcoming tumor stroma barrier and improving therapeutic effects

• Theranostic nanoparticles targeting drug resistant tumor cells for effective cancer therapy