Dr. Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao leads the Developmental Reproductive Biology Group in the Laboratory of Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology at NIEHS/NIH at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. Dr. Yao received his doctoral degree at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and then completed his postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center in 2002. He became Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 2003 and received tenure in 2009. Dr. Yao is the recipient of the Basal O'Connor Starter Research Award from March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation, Pfizer Research Award, New Investigator Award for the Society for the Study of Reproduction, and Young Andrologist Award from the American Society of Andrology. Dr. Yao joined NIEHS/NIH as a tenure-track investigator on August 9, 2010.

Reproductive Biology, Developmental toxicology