Overseas media: Neuroscientist Dan Yang, after 35 years of research in the United States, returned to China and joined the Shenzhen Research Institute for Medical Science and Translation (SMART) as a senior principal investigator.
She focuses on researching the neural circuits of sleep and prefrontal cortex executive function. In 2018, she was elected as an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Last year, she was elected as an Academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was commended for "revealing the microcircuits of cortical computation, functional plasticity cellular mechanisms, and sleep control neural circuits." This month, she became SMART's second full-time principal investigator. This move reunites her with her husband, 77-year-old NAS Academician Mo Ming Pu, who gave up his U.S. citizenship in 2017 to lead a scientific project in Shanghai. They are the first couple of NAS academicians to return to China, reflecting the growing attraction of China's scientific research ecosystem.
Yang Dan (in her fifties) has made breakthrough discoveries in the field of cortical computation. According to Google Scholar, she has published over 90 papers and received more than 24,000 citations.
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