He earned his PhD degree at University of Heidelberg in Germany in 1997 and performed his postdoctoral training in the Lab of Human Carcinogenesis (Lab Chief: Curtis Harris), NCI, NIH, from 1999 to 2005. Since coming to Washington University in 2005, he has made excellent progress in his research career. Dr. Yang established his own research team and collaborative research program containing highly qualified investigators from multi-disciplinary teams. His research interests include somatic and cancer cell reprogramming, telomere recombination in tumorigenesis and the BRCA1-AKT pathway in breast cancer.