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Yu Tian Wang

Professor
Academic Appointment
Professor
Research Focus
Brain and Nerves Mental Health and Behaviour
Degrees / Designations

BM, M.Sc., PhD

Contact Info
neuroscience.ubc.ca/people/wang
ytwang@brain.ubc.ca
604-822-0398

Biography

Dr. Yu Tian Wang obtained his PhD in neuroscience in from Memorial University, Canada and both BM and M.Sc. from Shandong University Medical School in China. He worked in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor, then associate professor between 1994-2001. He is currently a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia and the holder of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. & Yukon Chair in Stroke Research. He was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholar between 2001-2011 and has been a fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Royal Society of Canada since 2006.

Dr. Wang’s research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for regulating the function and intracellular trafficking of neurotransmitter receptors critical for brain functions, such as learning, memory and cognition, and investigating the manner by which these mechanisms may be altered in central nervous disease processes. His goal is to be able to treat central nervous disorders such as stroke, epilepsy and drug addiction by designing new therapeutics which specifically target these receptors and their pathways.

News and Awards

Top Graduating Doctoral Student Award and Rising Star Award 2015 Recipients

Apr 13, 2015

Publications

  • Nature neuroscience -

    Rapid and reversible knockdown of endogenous proteins by peptide-directed lysosomal degradation.

    Fan X, Jin WY, Lu J, Wang J, Wang YT
  • Nature communications -

    p97 regulates GluA1 homomeric AMPA receptor formation and plasma membrane expression.

    Ge Y, Tian M, Liu L, Wong TP, Gong B, Wu D, Cho T, Lin S, Kast J, Lu J, Wang YT
  • Nature communications -

    LTD is involved in the formation and maintenance of rat hippocampal CA1 place-cell fields.

    Ashby DM, Floresco SB, Phillips AG, McGirr A, Seamans JK, Wang YT
  • Nature neuroscience -

    Allosteric potentiation of glycine receptor chloride currents by glutamate.

    Liu J, Wu DC, Wang YT
  • Nature reviews. Neuroscience -

    Long-term depression in the CNS.

    Collingridge GL, Peineau S, Howland JG, Wang YT
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