You Yang Zhao
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Biography
You Yang Zhao is the William G Swartchild’s Jr. Distinguished Research Professor and Program Director for Lung and Vascular Biology at the Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his training in cardiopulmonary vascular biology at Harvard University and UCSD. Prior to his tenure at LCH, he was a Professor at the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Senior Research Scientist in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery in Pharmacia/Pfizer Inc. His research is focused on lung and vascular biology to delineate the molecular mechanisms of endothelial regeneration and resolution of inflammatory injury, as well as pulmonary vascular remodeling in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and thereby to provide novel druggable targets and therapeutic strategies for treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome and PAH. He has published many papers in top-tier journals such as Nat Med, PNAS, J Clin Invest, J Exp Med and Circulation. His lab is well-funded with multiple R01 grants and PPG grant from NIH.