Principal Investigator

Yanxiang Deng

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Core member, Penn Epigenetics Institute
Member, Penn Institute on Aging
Associate Member, Abramson Cancer Center

Dr. Yanxiang Deng is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). During his Ph.D., he developed microfluidic platforms for high-throughput single-cell mechanotyping and Intracellular delivery. Yanxiang then pursued his postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University, during which he worked on developing new technologies for spatially resolved omics profiling.

Selected Honors and Awards

2024 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award
2024 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (China Region)
2023 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
2023 NIAID New Innovators Award (DP2)
2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards, Laureate in Life Sciences