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Dr. Yulan Xiong is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, and the Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, UConn Health. She obtained her PhD at Lancaster University, UK, and received her postdoc training with Drs. Ted and Valina Dawson at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHMI). Before joining the faculty at UConn Health, she was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurology at JHMI and at Kansas State University thereafter. She was a recipient of the NIH K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, Parkinson’s Foundation Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award, William N. & Bernice E. Bumpus Foundation Innovation Awards, Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) Rapid Response Innovation Awards, American Parkinson’s Disease Association (APDA) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, etc.
Dr. Xiong is a member of the grant committee at the Parkinson’s Foundation (PF) and was the Chair of the Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award Committee at PF (2023). She is currently serving as a standing member at the NIH NOMD study section (2023-2027).
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