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Yizhou Dong, PhD
Title
Associate Professor
Unit / Department / Division
Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology
Address
434 Riffe Building
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Professional Interests
Professional Interests
Our research is devoted to drug discovery and development for the treatment of cancer as well as inherited genetic disorders. We integrate our specialty in pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, biomedical engineering, materials formulation, and animal studies to design novel therapeutic medicines and uncover their mechanisms of actions. The ultimate goal is to translate our scientific results and technological inventions into more effective treatment and more fulfilling lives for all individuals.
Education
- 2014, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard Medical School
- 2009, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (MS, PhD),
- 2005, MS, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
- 2002, BS, Peking University, Pharmaceutical Science
- Certificate in Applied Biostatistics, Harvard Medical School
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Honors
- NIGMS-Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA), 2016 - 2021
- New Investigator Grant, 2016 - 2017
- Research Project Award, 2016 - 2017
- Early Career Investigator Award, 2015 - 2017
- ResearchReward, 2015 - 2016
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