Complex sentence: Yang received his B.Sc from Hangzhou University (Zhejiang University) in 1978, MA in biology in 1982 from the Nanjing Railroad Medical Institute (now Southeast University) and in 1988 a Ph.D from the Genetics Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Split into simpler sentences: Yang received his B.Sc from Hangzhou University (Zhejiang University) in 1978, followed by a master degree in biology in 1982 from the Nanjing Railroad Medical Institute (now Southeast University). Yang earned his Ph.D in 1988 in the Genetics Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.