Rui Chang, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Department of Neuroscience
Yale University School of Medicine
Research interests: sensory biology, receptors and ion channels, vagus nerve, autonomic neuroscience, cardiovascular physiology
Biography
Rui Chang received his B.S. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology from Tsinghua University, China in 2005. He then studied sensory transduction with Emily Liman and earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California in 2011. He completed his postdoctoral training with Stephen Liberles at Harvard Medical School, where he investigated how boy sensory cues are monitored by the brain through the vagus nerve, and how these internal signals regulate whole body physiology. He will join both the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine in January 2018.
Education & Training
Tsinghua University 2001-2005
B.S. in Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
University of Southern California 2005-2011
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Liman Lab
Harvard Medical School 2011-2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Liberles Lab
Awards & Funding
- NIDDK K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (2017-2020)
- Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (2016)
- AHA postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2017)
- Harvard Medical School Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award (2015)
- Harrison Kutz Ph.D. Student Award (2011)
- Wu Shunde Scholarship (2003)
- Wu Zhande Scholarship (2002)