Dr. Yao is currently a professor of surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Pathology and Immunology, Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine. She has been actively involved in vaccine development for cancer and infectious disease for more than 20 years. She is one of the pioneer researchers in developing chimeric virus-like particles for HIV mucosal vaccine and pancreatic cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Yao is currently the Principal Investigator on several major NIH grants, VA merit grant and several other pilot project grants. She has more than 200 scientific publications in the fields of Virology, Immunology, and Oncology in high impact journals and has served on editorial board and invited reviewers in several professional journals. She has also served on grants review study sections nationally and internationally. Dr. Yao’s research programs include HIV vaccine development, pancreatic cancer pathogenesis and novel therapeutics development in pre-clinical models. Dr. Yao is currently a professor of surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Pathology and Immunology, Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine. She has been actively involved in vaccine development for cancer and infectious disease for more than 20 years. She is one of the pioneer researchers in developing chimeric virus-like particles for HIV mucosal vaccine and pancreatic cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Yao is currently the Principal Investigator on several major NIH grants, VA merit grant and several other pilot project grants. She has more than 200 scientific publications in the fields of Virology, Immunology, and Oncology in high impact journals and has served on editorial board and invited reviewers in several professional journals. She has also served on grants review study sections nationally and internationally. Dr. Yao’s research programs include HIV vaccine development, pancreatic cancer pathogenesis and novel therapeutics development in pre-clinical models.

Vaccine, Immunology