Yong Han Young Investigator

Email: hanyong@shsmu.edu.cn

Research area：Neural mechanisms of sleep regulating energy metabolism and emotion-related diseases

Education experience

2009-2015 Zhejiang University, PhD

2004-2009 Taishan Medical College, MB

Work experience

2023.07- Now Songjiang Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Young Investigator

2023.01-2023.06 Baylor College of Medicine, Instructor

2015.09-2022.12 Baylor College of Medicine, Postdoctoral Associate

Yong Han, an independent PI and was awarded as an Overseas Shanghai Youth Leading Talent. Dr. Han graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Medicine degree from Taishan Medical College. In 2015, he obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Institute of Neuroscience, Zhejiang University. In the same year, he joined Baylor College of Medicine in the United States for postdoctoral training and was appointed as an Instructor in the early 2023. In July 2023, he began his position at the Songjiang Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Dr. Han’s lab studies neural circuits that regulate innate behaviors such as feeding, emotion, and sleep. His research results have been published as the first author in Nature Communications, Science Advances, Molecular Psychiatry, Current biology, eLife and other journals. He also participated in writing the book Neural Regulation of Metabolism. He has won the Hsiang-tung Chang Excellent Graduate Student Paper Award, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Zhejiang University, Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University, Award of the National Scholarship for Graduate Students, China Sleep Research Society Young Outstanding Thesis Award and CSRS-Philips Respironics Outstanding Young Investigators Award.