Yange Niu, PhD

Yange Niu, PhD 
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Yange Niu received his Ph.D. from Peking University, China, where he studied the inhibitory mechanisms of antidiabetic drugs targeting human sodium-glucose cotransporters. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, working with Dr. John Gross. His research focuses on uncovering the molecular mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions, with a particular emphasis on how HIV-1 Vif counteracts human APOBEC3 proteins.