Yuk Yee Leung
Vitae
Current position
| 2017-present | Research Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
Education and Training
| 2015-2017 | Research Associate, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
| 2010-2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
| 2009 | Ph.D., Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Bioinformatics), Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. |
| 2005 | B.Eng., Medical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. |
Affiliations
| 2017 – present | Production team leader, Genome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease (GCAD). |
| 2017 – present | Team Member, NIAGADS GenomicsDB, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
| 2015 – 2019 | Member, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Annotation Work Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
| 2014 – present | Member, Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
| 2014 – present | Associate Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. USA. |
Training Awards
| Jan-May 2015 | Translational Therapeutics course in Masters in Translational Research Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
| Oct 2014 | Biomedical Postdoctoral Travel Award, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
| June 2014 | 22nd Annual Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research, National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Health, USA. |
Grant Support
I serve as principal investigator in the following completed grants:
| July 2019-Aug 2022 | Total amount: $150,000. Proposal : Inferring the regulatory mechanisms of noncoding genetic variants in ADRD 2019 Biomarkers Across Neurodegenerative Diseases (BAND 3) Program. Funding agency : Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), and the Weston Brain Institute (Weston). |
| July 2015-June 2016 | Total amount: $50,000. Proposal : microRNA Changes in Alzheimer’s disease Brain and CSF by Small RNA Sequencing University of Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (ADCC) pilot award. Funding agency :Institute of Aging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
| July 2015-June 2016 | Total amount: $20,000. Proposal :Identification and Validation of MicroRNA Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease Plasma by Small RNA Sequencing. Junior Investigator Preliminary / Feasibility Grant Program. Funding agency :Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. |
CONTACT INFORMATION
3700 Hamilton Walk
D101 Richards Medical Research Laboratories
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104