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Andrew Yang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, The J. David Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco

Andrew is a Sandler Faculty Fellow at UCSF in the Bakar Aging Research Institute and Department of Anatomy. His lab develops new molecular approaches to decode the meaning, mechanisms, and therapeutic relevance of crosstalk between the brain and body. They use a combination of chemical biology, single-cell, and functional approaches to interrogate vascular and immune contributions to brain health, aging, and neurodegeneration.

Learn more about the Yang lab by visiting their website.

Follow Dr. Yang on X/Twitter: @andcyang

Related Research:

Decoding Protein Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier to Enable New Alzheimer’s Therapies Andrew Yang 2025-12-16 Understanding How Human Brain Vascular Cells Mediate Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Andrew Yang 2022-11-16

Funded Research

These projects were made possible from Cure Alzheimer's Fund support.

Project Description Researchers Funding
Decoding Protein Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier to Enable New Alzheimer’s Therapies 2025

$459,865

Understanding How Human Brain Vascular Cells Mediate Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease 2022, 2024

$402,500

Selected Publications

These published papers resulted from Cure Alzheimer’s Fund support.

Kipnis, J., Benveniste, H., Eichmann, A., Thomas, J. L., Reich, D. S., Lewis, L. D., Tsai, L. H., Drieu, A., Bakker, E. N. T. P., Kelley, D. H., Lundgaard, I., Mestre, H., Zott, B., Eide, P. K., van Osch, M. J. P., van Veluw, S. J., Iliff, J., Yang, A. C., Santambrogio, L., Da Mesquita, S., Daneman, R., … Nedergaard, M. Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance, Neuron, November 24, 2025, Read More

Reid, M. M., Menon, S., Liu, H., Zhou, H., Hu, Z., Frerich, S., Ding, B., Oveisgharan, S., Zhang, Z., Nelson, S., Apolonio, A., Bennett, D. A., Dichgans, M., Pollard, K. S., Corces, M. R., & Yang, A. C. Human brain vascular multi-omics elucidates disease-risk associations, Neuron, October 1, 2025, Read More

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