The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to announce Qian Yin, Ph.D. as the newest addition to their group of prestigious faculty members.
Dr. Yin previously worked as an instructor in the Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University which led to three patent applications. She obtained her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China.
Her research lies at the interface of engineering and Immunology, employing a biomaterials-centric approach to precisely modulate the immune system and develop efficient therapies. During her time at Stanford University, she designed material tools that enable answering fundamental questions in immunology and developing advanced therapies against cancer and infectious diseases.
Dr. Yin will leverage her expertise in both engineering and immunology to create a unique research program at UT Austin. She will employ proprietary biomaterials to address the fundamental questions related to anti-tumor immune responses, specifically in glioblastoma or germinal centers. Yin aims to apply this data to optimize the development of new cancer immunotherapies and universal vaccines for influenza or SARS-CoV-2 viruses.
Using human tumor and immune organoid models, Yin hopes to advance her translational research from her lab to the clinical setting for the treatment of human diseases.
Professor Yin has 11 first-authored publications in prestigious journals including Nature Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Sciences, Cell Reports, Biomacromolecules, and Polymer Chemistry.
She is the recipient of CPRIT First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty award, Stanford Cancer Institute Fellowship/Ellie Guardino Research Fund, NCI CCNE-TD Pilot Project award, CRI Lloyd J Old Memorial Fellowship and Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship, NCI M-CNTC Fellowship, Nadine Barrie Smith Memorial Fellowship, Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship, 3M Graduate Fellow, and Racheff-Intel Award.
WRITTEN BY JOSHUA KLEINSTREUER
