Dr. Shan Ping Yu Bio
Dr. Yu received his medical (M.D.) and graduate (M.S. in Pharmacology) degrees in 1982 from the Capital Institute of Medicine and Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Beijing, China. In 1990, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Physiology and Biophysics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, New York, NY. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Yu spent one year at Lund University, Sweden, as a Research Associate. After earning his PhD degree at SUNY Stony Brook, he spent three years (1990-1993) as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Paul Adams at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stony Brook. Dr. Yu then joined the Department of Neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999. In November 2002, Dr. Yu transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) as a tenure-track Associate Professor and was granted with his tenure position three years later. In 2008, Dr. Yu was recruited as a Professor to the Department of Anesthesiology, Neuroscience Division, Emory University School of Medicine.
