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Yunling (Kary) Yang

Yunling (Kary) Yang

San Jose,CA

Summary

  • Experienced in HIV drug development
  • Drug development project lead
  • Published two Nature Articles

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Intern Pharmacist

Walgreens
Burlingame, CA
09.2023 - 05.2024
  • Dispensed prescribed medications
  • Inspected control medications and document appropriately
  • Answered calls from customers seeking medical advice or assistance with their prescriptions.
  • Counseled customers on proper usage of medications, potential side effects and related information.

Research Associate (Discovery Virology)

Gilead Sciences Inc.
Foster City, CA
02.2020 - 07.2023
  • Designed and coordinated inter-group collaboration of HIV Cure project
  • Executed large-scale ex vivo HIV latency reversal assays
  • Established SOP of multicolor flow cytometry for the entire department
  • Refine lentiviral transfection method in order to set up in vitro small molecule screening model
  • Examined MOA for an apoptotic pathway by utilizing multiple inhibitors
  • Measured cytokines from pre-clinical samples, and data was presented in two Nature publications

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy -

University of California, San Francisco
06-2026

Bachelor's Degree - Molecular & Cell Biology - Immunology and Infectious Diseases

University of California, Berkeley
12.2019

Skills

  • Multi-color Flow Cytometry
  • Cytokine Assay
  • Cell Transfection
  • Prism
  • FlowJo
  • Immunization Administration
  • Patient Counseling
  • HIPAA Guidelines

Publications

  • Therapeutic efficacy of combined active and passive immunization in art-suppressed, Shiv-infected rhesus macaques, Walker-Sperling, V. E. K., Mercado, N. B., Chandrashekar, A., Borducchi, E. N., Liu, J., Nkolola, J. P., Lewis, M., Murry, J. P., Yang, Y. et al., 06/16/2022, Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31196-5
  • Therapeutic efficacy of an AD26/MVA vaccine with SIV GP140 protein and vesatolimod in art-suppressed rhesus macaques, Ventura, J. D., Nkolola, J. P., Chandrashekar, A., Borducchi, E. N., Liu, J., Mercado, N. B., Hope, D. L., Giffin, V. M., McMahan, K., Geleziunas, R., Murry, J. P., Yang, Y. et al., 05/18/2022, NPJ Vaccines, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-022-00477-x

Timeline

Intern Pharmacist

Walgreens
09.2023 - 05.2024

Research Associate (Discovery Virology)

Gilead Sciences Inc.
02.2020 - 07.2023

Doctor of Pharmacy -

University of California, San Francisco

Bachelor's Degree - Molecular & Cell Biology - Immunology and Infectious Diseases

University of California, Berkeley
Yunling (Kary) Yang