Yanan (Elaine) Kang
Graduated 2022
Graduated 2022
Prior Affiliation: UCLA
Thesis Mentor: Karen Aboody
Thesis Title: Anionic liposomes as a targeted immunotherapy delivery system
Fellowships, honors, awards etc.: Center for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE) Fellow, March 2015–June 2015; CARE SEM SPUR summer research program scholarship, June 2015–August 2015; Maximize Student’s Diversity (MSD) program scholarship, August 2015–June 2016
Publications:
Tiet, P.; Li, J.;Abidi, W.; Mooney, R.; Flores, L.; Aramburo, S. ;Batalla-Covello, J.; Gonzaga, J.; Tsaturyan, L.; Kang, Y.;Cornejo, Y. R.; Dellinger, T.; Han, E.; Aboody, K. S.; Berlin, J. M. Silica Coated Paclitaxel Nanocrystals Enable Neural Stem Cell Loading For Treatment of Ovarian Cancer. Bioconjugate chemistry 30, 1415-1424, doi:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.9b00160 (2019).
Liu, X.; Situ, A.; Kang, Y.; Villabroza, K. R.; Liao, Y.; Chang, C. H.; Donahue, T.; Nel, A. E.; Meng, H. Irinotecan Delivery by Lipid-Coated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Shows Improved Efficacy and Safety over Liposomes for Pancreatic Cancer. ACS nano 2016, 10, 2702.