The Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics (CDT)

We are pleased to invite you to attend our next CDT Seminar Series.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 3 p.m.

This seminar will be held in person in NSC 218

and online via Zoom:

     Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/8983051090?pwd=ejlyaGx5Vi84VGlTLzFQcEI5c3M3Zz09

   Meeting ID: 898 305 1090 

 Dr. Jindan Yu, Ph.D.

“Genomic and Epigenomic Approaches to Target Discovery and Therapeutic Development”

Host: Dr. Lei Li

Jindan Yu, M.D., Ph.D., is the Fray F. Marshall Chair in Biomedical Urologic Research and Professor and serves as vice chair for research in the Department of Urology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Yu also serves as scientific director for prostate and GU cancers research at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. She holds a joint appointment and serves as faculty lead for cancer genomics in the Department of Human Genetics. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory in 2023, Dr. Yu was a professor in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Yu is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute. She has trained over 40 fellows and graduate students and served on over 30 Ph.D. thesis committees.

Dr. Yu received her Bachelor of Medicine (equivalent to M.D. in U.S.) at Peking University, Health Science Center in Beijing, China. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with concentration on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.