Kangzhi Chen, MD

Kangzhi Chen is a final-year medical student from Xiangya School of Medicine in China. He is currently attending the Program to Advance Leadership and Scholarship at Yale School of Medicine, after which he will earn his medical degree. In 2020, his strong interest led him to specialize in neurology, with a focus on neuro-immunology. Since then, he has accumulated clinical experience during internships and engaged in several research projects on the clinical management and pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis (MG) under the guidance of Professor Huan Yang from Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. In the O'Connor Lab, he has been investigating the pathogenic mechanisms of B cells and autoantibodies in MG through the lens of human translational immunology.