个人简介

He is currently a professor at the organization of Pharmacy of the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). He finshed his undergraduate study in the foreign language department of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) from 1997-2002. He then went to Baton Rouge, LA and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Louisiana State University in 2007 under the guidance of Professor Robert M. Strongin. After completing postdoctoral work at UT Austin with Professor Eric V. Anslyn, he joined the ECUST faculty as an independant PI in fall 2010. He's promoted to full professor in 2015. A copy of his cv may be found here. The theme of Prof. Yang's research is the development of novel fluorescent dyes for biological, medicinal and material applications. He's also very interested in developing tools, including probes, donors and scavengers for reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. Awards 2014 Excellence in Graduate Teaching, ECUST 2013 Shanghai Rising-Star talent award, Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission 2012 Junior Faculty Award, organization of Pharmacy 2012 "Tianding-Dongyue" Teaching Award, ECUST 2007-2010 Postdoctoral Fellowship from Henry Ford Hospital 2003 Teaching Award for General Chemistry Laboratory