Ken Huaijin Loh, PhD
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Assistant Professor in Comparative Medicine
Biography
Ken Loh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine in the Institute for Biomolecular Design and Discovery at Yale University’s West Campus. A native of Singapore, he received his B.S. in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College in 2009 and earned his Ph.D in Chemistry with Alice Ting at MIT in 2016, developing chemical-enzymatic methodologies for tagging proteins in cells. Ken next received postdoctoral training with Jeffrey Friedman at Rockefeller University, studying the role of leptin in its regulation of sympathetic nerves in the fat organ, and joined the faculty at Yale in August of 2022. His lab is interested in studying brain-body interactions at a molecular length scale, using tools in chemical biology.
Appointments
Comparative Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
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Education & Training
- NIH Pathway to Independence K99 Fellow
- The Rockefeller University (2022)
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow
- The Rockefeller University (2021)
- PhD
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chemistry (2016)
- BSc
- Harvey Mudd College, Chemistry (2009)
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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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News
- February 28, 2024
Grants Awarded at YCC • 2024
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Yale University
PO Box 27391
West Haven, CT 06516-7392
United States
Locations
Institute of Biomolecular Design and Discovery
Academic Office