Yang Yang

Yang Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Van Andel Institute, where her research focuses on the structural biology of α-synuclein and its role in Parkinson’s disease and related synucleinopathies. Using cryo-EM, she has determined the structures of postmortem α-synuclein filaments. Her work has contributed to defining disease-relevant α-synuclein filament architectures and to understanding how molecular cofactors and co-pathologies influence aggregation and seeding. Her long-term goal is to link α-synuclein structures to disease mechanism, enabling structure-based approaches to diagnosis and therapy in synucleinopathies.