Research Vice President

 

 

 

Jun Yu (余军), M.D., FAHA

Associate Professor

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Centre for Metabolic Disease Research

Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science

Temple University Lewis Katz School of medicine

3500 N. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19140

 

Biography

 

Dr. Jun Yu is an Associate Professor with tenure at the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Center for Metabolic Disease Research at Temple University. He completed medical training at the Capital University of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China. Following postdoctoral research at Yale University in New Haven, USA, he became an Assistant Professor at Yale, then moved to Temple University in 2016. The long-term goal of Dr. Yu’s research program is to understand the molecular control of inflammatory cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Yu and his laboratory have made seminal contributions to the field of vascular remodeling, ischemia-induced angiogenesis, and atherogenesis. Dr. Yu has published over 80 original papers in high-impact scientific journals, including Nature Medicine, JCI, and PNAS, with over 7500 citations and an h-index of 43. His contribution to cardiovascular research has earned him the prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Established Investigator Award in 2018 and the Alan T. Hirsch, MD Mid-Career Award in Vascular Medicine in 2021.

 

Dr. Yu is also a dedicated educator both in the classroom and in the laboratory. He currently gives over ten lectures to medical, Ph.D., dental, and podiatry students at Temple University each year. He is actively involved in community services within Temple as well as extramurally. Dr. Yu is an AHA service award recipient. He is an active reviewer for NIH, NASA, and AHA. He serves as an editorial board member and/or reviewer for numerous high-impact journals, including Nature Medicine, Circulation, JCI, JEM, Circulation Research, and JBC.