Yi Tang (biochemist)

Yi Tang
Alma materPennsylvania State University (BS)
California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Natural product biosynthesis
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorDavid A. Tirrell
Other academic advisorsChaitan Khosla (Postdoc)
Websitesites.google.com/site/yitanglab/

Yi Tang is a biochemist and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Parson's Family Foundation Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1][2][3] His research interests include the discovery, functional characterization, and engineering of natural product biosynthetic enzymes.[4] He received the 2014 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.[5]

Education

Tang attended college at Pennsylvania State University and earned his PhD in Chemistry in 2002 from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked in the lab of Professor David Tirrell.[1] He then studied under Chaitan Khosla at Stanford University in Chemical Biology.[2]

Career and research

From 2002 to 2004, Tang pursued postdoctoral studies at the Stanford University in the lab of Professor Chaitan Khosla. In 2004, Tang joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering the University of California, Los Angeles. His group's research has focused on studying the biosynthesis of natural products from Streptomyces and filamentous fungi as well as engineering enzymes that can be used for the production of pharmaceutical compounds. One demonstration of the latter approach has been his group's development of a biocatalytic approach for making the commonly prescribed lipid-lowering medication simvastatin.[6][7]

Web of Science lists 254 publications authored by Tang in peer-reviewed scientific journals that have been cited over 10,000 times, leading to an h-index of 58.[8] His lab's three most cited papers have been cited >180 times each.[9][10][11]

Awards and honors

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References

  1. ^ a b "Tang, Yi". UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  2. ^ a b c "Yi Tang Lab@UCLA - Members". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  3. ^ a b "Tang, Yi". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  4. ^ "Yi Tang". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  5. ^ ACS Division of Biological Chemistry (7 January 2023). "Previous Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Structural secrets of enzyme used to make popular anti-cholesterol drug revealed". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  7. ^ US EPA, OCSPP (2013-02-26). "Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2012 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award". United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  8. ^ "Web of Science". www.webofscience.com. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  9. ^ Medema MH, Kottmann R, Yilmaz P, Cummings M, Biggins JB, Blin K, et al. (September 2015). "Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster". Nature Chemical Biology. 11 (9): 625–631. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1890. PMC 5714517. PMID 26284661.
  10. ^ Zhou H, Qiao K, Gao Z, Meehan MJ, Li JW, Zhao X, et al. (April 2010). "Enzymatic synthesis of resorcylic acid lactones by cooperation of fungal iterative polyketide synthases involved in hypothemycin biosynthesis". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (13): 4530–4531. doi:10.1021/ja100060k. PMC 2861853. PMID 20222707.
  11. ^ Ma SM, Li JW, Choi JW, Zhou H, Lee KK, Moorthie VA, et al. (October 2009). "Complete reconstitution of a highly reducing iterative polyketide synthase". Science. 326 (5952): 589–592. doi:10.1126/science.1175602. PMC 2875069. PMID 19900898.
  12. ^ "Yi Tang named 2025 ACS BIOT Marvin Johnson Award winner – UCLA". www.chemistry.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-10-12. Retrieved 2026-02-24.

Official website

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Tang_(scientist)