Yifei earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from the UCLA in 2019. She is a PhD student in Dr. Fan Yuan's lab.
Research Interests
Understanding mechanisms of vesicular escape of molecular cargo delivered into cells for development of new strategies to improve non-viral cargo delivery in cell engineering and DNA vaccination.
Publications:
Lorena Saelices, Binh A. Nguyen, Kevin Chung, Yifei Wang, Alfredo Ortega, Ji H. Lee, Teresa Coelho, Johan Bijzet, Merrill D. Benson, David S. Eisenberg. A pair of peptides inhibits seeding of the hormone transporter transthyretin into amyloid fibrils (J Biol Chem, 2019 Apr 12;294(15):6130-6141)
Yuhang Jiang, Qiao Lu, Yongheng Wang, Emily Xu, Alison Ho, Priya Singh, Yifei Wang, Gregory T. Tietjen, Peter Cresswell and W. Mark Saltzman. Quantitative analysis of endosomal escape using a library of polymers for mRNA delivery (Nano Letters, 2020, 20, 2, 1117–1123)
Honors & Awards:
Lew’s (NIH T32) Predoctoral Fellowship (2022)
Student Research Fellowship, BME MS Program, Duke University (2020-2021)
Merit-based Scholarship, BME MS Program, Duke University (2019-2020)
BS with Departmental Honors awarded, UCLA (2019)
Magna Cum Laude, UCLA (2019)
UCLA Dean’s Honors List (2015-2019)
Conference Abstracts & Presentations:
Yifei Wang, Chun-Chi Chang, Fan Yuan. Quantitative Analysis of Naked DNA Delivered into Nucleus of Mammalian Cells by Electrotransfection. (BMES 2022 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Oct.12-15, 2022)
Yuhang Jiang, Qiao Lu, Yongheng Wang, Tushar Agarwal, Alison Ho, Emily Xu, Priya Singh, Yifei Wang, Zhaozhong Jiang, Peter Cresswell, Mark Saltzman. Polymers for Transfection of mRNA: Polymer End Groups Dramatically Affect Efficiency and Biodistribution (ASGCT 22nd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Apr.29- May.2, 2019)