Qinglin Yang, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Nutrition Sciences

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1675 University Blvd, Webb 435

Birmingham, AL 35294

Tel: 205-996-6022

Fax: 205-934-7049

E-mail: qyang@uab.edu

http://www.uab.edu/shp/nutrition/about/faculty-and-staff/primary-faculty/46-qinglin-yang

Dr. Q Yang obtained his bachelor and master degrees of medicine in China in the 80's and got his MS degree in Pharmacy from the University of Montana in 1992 and his PhD in cardiac physiology from Washington State University in 1996. After 4 years of post-doctoral training in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, he joined the faculty in the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Morehouse School of Medicine in 2000. Dr. Yang moved his lab to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2008.He is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences, a senior scientist in the Center of Comprehensive Cardiovascular Biology, Center of Diabetic Research and the Obesity and Nutrition Research Center. He currently serves in the editorial boards of several journals, including Diabetes and PPAR Research.

Research in Dr. Yang’s lab focuses on exploring molecular mechanisms underlying the development and progression of heart failure, especially those related to derangement of myocardial energy metabolism in pathological conditions such as hypertension, obesity and diabetes.