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Hongying Shen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
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Cellular & Molecular Physiology

ISTC building Rm120, 850 West Campus Drive , Yale West Campus

West Haven, CT 06516

United States

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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

Education & Training

PhD
Yale University, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (2013)
BS
Nanjing University, China, Chemistry (2006)

Research

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Medical Research Interests

Cell Biology; Mass Spectrometry; Metabolism

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Hongying Shen's published research.

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2020

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

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    1907 Foundation Trailblazer Award in mental health

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    Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences

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    Lois E. and Franklin H. Top, Jr., Yale Scholar Award

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    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards

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Cellular & Molecular Physiology

ISTC building Rm120, 850 West Campus Drive , Yale West Campus

West Haven, CT 06516

United States

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