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EV biology, diagnostics, engineering, and therapeutics

Yiyao Huang, MD (yiyaohuang141@gmail.com)
Yiyao studied Clinical Laboratory Medicine at the Southern Medical University, China and obtained her master's and bachelor's degrees in Clinical Medicine. Yiyao joined Dr. Kenneth Witwer’s lab in October 2017 as a visiting scholar. Yiyao worked on characterizing brain-derived extracellular vesicles (BD-EVs) in neurological diseases, includes Alzheimer's disease (AD) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). The main purpose of her project was to determine the potential of miRNAs, circular RNAs, and proteins in BD-EVs regulating neurodegenerative diseases.
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