Ya Ha PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Departments & Organizations

Affiliated Faculty

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Cell Cycle and Signal Transduction; Drug Design, Discovery and Mechanism; Membrane Biology and Motion

Cancer Center, Yale: Developmental Therapeutics

Pharmacology

Biography

1988-1992 B.S. Nanjing University
1992-1998 Ph.D. University of Minnesota
1998-2001 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
2007- Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine

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Education

B.S., Nanjing University , 1992
Ph.D., University of Minnesota , 1998

Selected Publication

Xue, Y., Chowdhury, S., Liu, X., Akiyama, Y., Ellman, J. & Ha, Y. (2012) Conformational change in rhomboid protease GlpG induced by inhibitor binding to its S’ subsites. Biochemistry 51, 3723-3731.

Articles

Autumn 2003

Building a better drug

The rational approach to drug discovery is changing pharmacology, but serendipity and imagination still play a starring...

Alzheimer’s protein solved

Using X-ray crystallography, Yale scientists have discerned, for the first time, the atomic structure of a protein that...

A clear solution to a protein puzzle

Several years ago, when researchers discovered intramembrane proteases—a class of hydrophilic enzymes that seemed to...