Yanyang Chen

Co-Director of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

Yanyang is a 6th year Gerstner Sloan Kettering (GSK) graduate student in the John Maciejowski Lab in Sloan Kettering Institute. She studies the mechanisms of cytosolic DNA sensing and degradation in cancer cell lines. She’s interested in how cytosolic DNA encapsulated in aberrant nuclear structures termed micronuclei can receive DNA damage or trigger innate immune signaling pathways. 

Originally from Beijing, Yanyang graduated with joint bachelor’s degrees from City University of Hong Kong and Columbia University. In her free time, she enjoys cat pleasing, a good swim, and curating deep house soundtracks that she can constantly fall back to.