BIOGRAPHY

Chenju YI, MD, PhD

A highly motivated neurologist and neuroscientist, with a main interest in the role of glia in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and exploring possible therapeutic methods.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Glia cells; Connexins; Neurodegenerative diseases

EDUCATION

2009.09 - 2011.10         

Institute of Brain Research, University of Tubingen, Germany

Doctorate in Medicine (MD), thesis entitled “Sweet Taste Receptors in Normal and Pathological Rat Brain”

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. HJ Schlusener

2006.09 - 2011.07         

Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science andTechnology, China

Doctorate in Neurology (PhD), thesis entitled “A Study on the Relationships between Glial Gap Junctional Communication and Hippocampus Damage Following Focal Cerebral Ischemia”

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wei Wang

2000.09 - 2006.07         

Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Bachelor of Clinical Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2018.11 - Now           

Principal Investigator of Yi Lab at Research Centre, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China

2016.08 - 2018.10     

Senior Research Fellow in Prof. Carlos Ibanez’Lab   at University of Singapore   

2012.09 - 2016.07     

Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof.Christian Giaume’s Lab at Collegede France, CNRS, Paris, France

2011.11 - 2012.04     

Physician in neurology department of Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China

2005.08 - 2005.10     

Exchange student, Intern of Surgery Hospital of Heidelberg University, Germany

2004.12 - 2005.07     

Intern of Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China