Affiliation: The University of Tokyo, Department of Veterinary Pharmacology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Dr. Qunhui Yang completed her PhD in veterinary medicine from the department of Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo in 2019. She is the main researcher on her project focusing on the protein CPI-17 which plays an important role in maintaining blood pressure. She continued her research in the same lab for her post-doc for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of CPI-17 in pathophysiological conditions such as hypertension. Her work is focused on establishing animal models for the ability of smooth muscle to contract in vivo and in vitro.