Dr. Ting Yang is an Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Medicine. She is a with clinical background in anesthesiology and substantial preclinical training in cardiovascular biology and neuroscience. She received her MD and PhD degrees from Peking University Medical Center, completing part of her PhD training at Imperial College London. She gained significant multi-disciplinary research experience in kidney injury, cardiovascular disease, and postoperative neuroinflammation during her postdoctoral training at UCSF, Karolinska Institutet and Duke University.
In 2018 Dr. Yang joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine at Duke as Medical Instructor and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2020. She is a productive early-stage investigator, with more than 30 publications. Dr. Yang received multiple awards including the Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Award from the American Society of Nephrology and Kidney Cure in 2020. Her lab studies how vascular and neuronal risk factors contribute to multi-organ dysfunction impacting long-term functional outcomes.