Yun Nancy Huang, PhD
Associate Professor & CPRIT Scholar & ACS Research Scholar
Dr. Yun Nancy Huang is a tenured Professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT) at Texas A&M University, where she is also an American Cancer Society Research Scholar and a CPRIT Scholar. She holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Huang received her medical training from Zhejiang University School of Medicine and earned her PhD from Georgia State University. She completed her postdoctoral training with Anjana Rao (NAS member) as a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and subsequently served as an Instructor at the La Jolla Institute and the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Huang joined IBT–Texas A&M University in 2014 as a CPRIT Scholar, was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2019, and then to Professor in 2024. She is the recipient of many honors, including the GSK Fellowship and Fellow Award from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Research Excellence Award from Texas A&M University, the Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society, and the inaugural Mary Beth Maddox Award and Lectureship from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science, and Technology (TAMEST). She serves on the editorial board of Blood and is a standing member of multiple national review panels, including those of the NIH and the American Cancer Society.