Le Zhang, PhD

Dr. Le Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience at Yale University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on immune responses of the central nervous system in neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder, and Multiple sclerosis, integrating cutting-edge single cell technologies, human research and mouse genetics. Our overarching goal is to elucidate the body-to-brain immune axis in both health and disease.

Dr. Zhang obtained her B.S. in Biological Science from Peking University in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Hong Kong in 2010, where she studied epigenetic regulation in aging and senescence with Dr. Zhongjun Zhou. Dr. Zhang continued her training in epigenetics and neuroscience as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Zhaolan Zhou at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and as a research fellow with Dr. Jordan Kreidberg at Harvard Medical School. After a short journey at Pfizer in the R&D of neuroscience, Dr. Zhang joined Yale School of Medicine as an Associate Research Scientist, leading single cell research in neuroimmunology and neurological disorders, and started her current position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Department of Neuroscience in 2020.