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Chin-Rang Yang, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Office Phone: 214-648-4190
Office Fax: 214-648-7084
Biography
Dr. Chin-Rang Yang was born in Taiwan in 1966. He received his Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from National Taiwan University. He came to the United States in 1992 and received his PhD in Developmental Biology & Human Oncology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. His thesis focused on the DNA repair mechanism in cancer cells following radiation treatment. During his postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester, Dr. Yang became interested in Genomics and Bioinformatics research. He went back to school and received his Master’s degree in Information Technology; he then joined the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California-Irvine for his second postdoctoral training in Systems Biology.
By combining his two academic backgrounds in biology and computer science, Dr. Yang developed the novel non-linear, enzyme-centric technique for mathematical modeling and the analysis of complex biological networks.
In 2005, Dr. Yang was appointed Assistant Professor at the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern. He is extending his research into Systems Biology in Cancer and participates in Bioinformatics research at the Cancer Center.
Education
| Graduate School | University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998) |
Research Interests
Publications
Yang C-R, Leskov K, Hosley-Eberlein K, Criswell T, Pink JJ, Kinsella TJ, Boothman DA. , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. , 2000; (97(11)):5907-5912
Yang, C-R., Yeh, S., Leskov K., Odegaard E., Hsu, H.L., Chang, C., Kinsella, T.J., Chen, D.J., and Boothman, D.A. , Nucleic Acids Research , 1999; (27(10)):2165-2174
Yang, C-R, Najdi, T. S., Shapiro, B. E., Hatfield, G. W. and Eric D. Mjolsness. , Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , June 2006; (in press)
Yang, C-R., Shapiro, B. E., Mjolsness, E. D., and Hatfield, G. W. , Bioinformatics , 2005; (21):774-780
Yang, C-R., Shapiro, B. E., Hung, S-P., Mjolsness, E. D., and Hatfield, G. W. , J. Biol. Chem. , 2005; (280(12)):11224-11232
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Honors/Awards
Department of Defense, USA. (2000)
Rochester Area Foundation, Rochester, NY (2000)
The 51st Annual Symposium on Fundamental Cancer Research, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (1998)
The 84th Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Meeting, Wash., D.C. (1996)