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Jun J. Yang, PhD

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Division Director, Pharmacy Sciences

Vice-Chair, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Endowed Chair in Pharmacogenomics

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Jun J. Yang, PhD

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

MS 313, Room I5104

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-2517(phone)

(901) 595-8869(fax)

Quick Facts

Yang was named Mentor of the Year by the St. Jude Postdoctoral Association in 2024.

Affiliations

Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Department of Oncology

Comprehensive Cancer Center

St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Hematological Malignancies Program

Education

PhD – Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (2006)

Honors & Awards

  • 2024 Mentor of the Year, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • 2023 American Association of Cancer Research Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research

Research Interests

  • Understanding the genetic basis of inter-patient variability in anticancer drug response 
  • Pharmacogenomics of anti-leukemia drug toxicities
  • Genomics of anti-leukemia drug sensitivity and resistance (especially molecularly targeted therapeutics)

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