Rui Chang, PhD

Rui Chang received his B.S. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology from Tsinghua University, China in 2005. He then studied sensory transduction with Emily Liman and earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California in 2011. He completed his postdoctoral training with Stephen Liberles at Harvard Medical School, where he investigated how boy sensory cues are monitored by the brain through the vagus nerve, and how these internal signals regulate whole body physiology. He joined the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine in January 2018. He received the 2019 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.