Dr. Yue Feng
Yue Feng, PhD, is a professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Feng received her MD from Beijing Medical University, PhD of Molecular Genetics from Vanderbilt, and postdoc training in a Howard Hughes lab at Emory headed by Dr. Stephen T Warren, the former founding Chairman of Human Genetics Department and the William Patterson Timmie Professor and Charles Howard Candler Chair of Human Genetics at Emory.
Dr. Feng has a long-standing interest of RNA biology in normal brain development and pathogenesis of various brain disorders, starting from her discoveries that the Fragile X intellectual disability protein binds and regulates brain mRNAs to control neuronal protein translation, which was disrupted and led to fragile X syndrome. Since joining Pharmacology, Dr. Feng established an active research program to investigate how malfunction of various RNA-binding proteins disrupt splicing and translation of coding RNAs in neurons and glia, which contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders.
