{"id":10,"date":"2017-02-09T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:05:25","slug":"yu-yuan-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu Yuan, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/Yu-Yuan-Headshot-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yu Yuan Headshot\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/Yu-Yuan-Headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/Yu-Yuan-Headshot.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><strong><br \/>\nEmail<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:yu.yuan@ucf.edu\">yu.yuan@ucf.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Phone<\/strong>: 407.823.6367<br \/>\n<strong>Office<\/strong>: Room 245, Physical Sciences Building<br \/>\n<strong>Lab<\/strong>: Room 237, Physical Sciences Building<br \/>\n<strong>Mailing Address<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/\">Department of Chemistry<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Central Florida<br \/>\n4111 Libra Drive<br \/>\nOrlando, FL 32816<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>2012-2018, Assistant Professor; 2018-2025, Associate Professor; 2025-Present, Professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Chemistry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Central Florida<\/a>, Orlando, FL.<\/li>\n<li>2009-2012, Senior Research Chemist, RNAi Medicinal Chemistry, Merck &amp; Co., Inc, West Point, PA.<\/li>\n<li>2007-2009, Postdoc, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Adviser: Dr. Samuel J. Danishefsky.<\/li>\n<li>2001-2007, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Adviser: Dr. Chulbom Lee<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1996-2001, B.S. in Polymer Science, USTC, Hefei, China, Adviser: Dr. Yanmei Wang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email: yu.yuan@ucf.edu Phone: 407.823.6367 Office: Room 245, Physical Sciences Building Lab: Room 237, Physical Sciences Building Mailing Address: Department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Email: yu.yuan@ucf.edu Phone: 407.823.6367 Office: Room 245, Physical Sciences Building Lab: Room 237, Physical Sciences Building Mailing Address: Department of&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Yuan Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-14T16:05:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1180\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/\",\"name\":\"Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-09T14:57:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-14T16:05:25+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg\",\"width\":1180,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"Library\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/\",\"name\":\"The Yuan Lab\",\"description\":\"Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab","og_description":"Email: yu.yuan@ucf.edu Phone: 407.823.6367 Office: Room 245, Physical Sciences Building Lab: Room 237, Physical Sciences Building Mailing Address: Department of&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/","og_site_name":"The Yuan Lab","article_modified_time":"2025-08-14T16:05:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1180,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/","url":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/","name":"Yu Yuan, Ph.D. - The Yuan Lab","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg","datePublished":"2017-02-09T14:57:20+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-14T16:05:25+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/yu-yuan-ph-d\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/02\/library3-copy.jpg","width":1180,"height":300,"caption":"Library"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/","name":"The Yuan Lab","description":"Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/yuanlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}