Hongying Shen, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Biography
Hongying (Hoy) Shen is an assistant professor at Cellular & Molecular Physiology at Yale School of Medicine and Systems Biology Institute at Yale West Campus from Jan 2020. Dr. Shen is interested to use multidisciplinary approaches ranging from biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, molecular evolution, and metabolomics to study cellular metabolism underlying human health and diseases, which would ultimately offer new directions for diagnostics and therapeutics. Specifically, we will focus on the “deorphanization” of hundreds of enzymes and transporters of unknown functions that are encoded in the human genome and are important to cellular and organismal physiology.
Dr. Shen received her B.S. in chemistry from Nanjing University in China in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B) at Yale University in 2013, where she studied membrane curvature formation and lipid metabolism in endocytic trafficking in the laboratory of Dr. Pietro De Camilli at the cell biology department. She then completed her postdoctoral training with Dr. Vamsi Mootha at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School to develop integrated metabolomics and CRISPR screen approaches to study mitochondrial metabolism.
Appointments
Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Diabetes Research Center
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
- Janeway Society
- Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Neuroscience Track
- Wu Tsai Institute
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Education & Training
- PhD
- Yale University, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (2013)
- BS
- Nanjing University, China, Chemistry (2006)
Research
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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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News
- September 19, 2023
Investigators Launch Study Aimed at Accelerating Understanding of Bipolar Disorder
- September 01, 2023Source: Yale West Campus
Hoy Shen Selected as Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
- May 11, 2022
The Molecular Machinery That Delivers Metabolites to Mitochondria
- June 22, 2021
Hoy Shen receives Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences
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Cellular & Molecular Physiology
ISTC building Rm120, 850 West Campus Drive , Yale West Campus
West Haven, CT 06516
United States