Jason Yang

Jason H. Yang, PhD

Assistant Professor and Chancellor Scholar of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Center for Emerging Pathogens

Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Research Focus

Systems biology of chronic and infectious diseases. Projects in the lab integrate experimental, computational and machine learning activities. Active projects are currently focused on antibiotics, innate immunity, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and heart failure

Lopatkin AJ, Bening SC, Manson AL, et al. Clinically relevant mutations in core metabolic genes confer antibiotic resistance. Science. 2021;371:eaba0862. doi:10.1126/science.aba0862.