Yixin Yang
Kean University, United States
- Orcid: 0000-0001-7997-3849
- Publications: 27
- Citations: 319
- Keywords: melanoma, antioxidant, miRNA, phytochemical, bioinformatics
Short Bio
- Dr. Yang is a Professor of Cell Biology, the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of Wenzhou Kean University, and the Associate Provost of Kean University. Dr. Yang has been conducting active research of a broad scope including roles of microRNAs in human malignant melanoma and microRNA-based therapeutics against melanoma; cocktail therapy combining heat shock protein inhibitors and autophagy inhibitors against melanoma; roles of antioxidants in melanoma growth and invasiveness and in drug resistance to chemotherapy; the pharmacological effects of phytochemicals on human malignant melanoma; the interplay between the mismatch repair genes; the differential response of P53 network at different oncogenic mutation context; utilization of CRISPR-dCas9 system to regulate miRNA expression. Dr. Yang’s research was supported by subawards of National Institute of Health of the United States and the International Collaboration Grant of Natural Science Foundation of China. His research has been published in highly impacted journals including Molecular Carcinogenesis, Cancer Letters, Mutation Research, and Trends in Plant Science.
