Yung-Chi Cheng, PhD
Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology; Director, Therapeutics/Chemotherapy Program; Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Microbiology | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Cell Cycle and Signal Transduction; DNA Dynamics; Drug Design, Discovery and MechanismStem Cell Center, Yale
Developmental Therapeutics
Pharmacology(
Liver Center)
Developmental Therapeutics
Molecular Virology
Research Interests
Cancer; Viral chemotherapy
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Education
- Ph.D., Brown University, 1972
Selected Publication
- Hsu, C., et al. (2007). Comparison of phosphorylation of 4?f-Ethynyl 2?f, 3?f-dihydro-3?f-deoxythymidine with other anti-HIV Thymidine analogs. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 51 May.
Articles
Winter 2008
Biotech spinoffs fuel New Haven economy
“Restaurants. Good restaurants.” The surge in upscale eateries opening in New Haven, said Jon Soderstrom ...
Winter 2007
Yale licenses AIDS drug
Yale University concluded in June a license agreement granting Oncolys BioPharma of Tokyo exclusive rights to develop a...
Spring 2007
Simulation, Chinese herbs and a career studying killers
For our cover story this issue we asked writer Jennifer Kaylin to explore the ways in which simulation is used to train...
Spring 2007
From the potion to the pill
By characterizing and quantifying the active ingredients in traditional Chinese herbal remedies, Yale scientists hope...
Autumn 2003
Building a better drug
The rational approach to drug discovery is changing pharmacology, but serendipity and imagination still play a starring...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New Haven’s biotech boom
The medical school’s efforts to bring its intellectual property to market have given the New Haven economy a boost.
Summer 1999
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The following Yale faculty have been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering:...
Spring 1999
Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D.
Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D., the Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology and medicine, received the American Society for...
Spring 1999
Raiding the reservoir
AIDS Researcher David Ho reports on “hidden HIV” and potential new avenues of attack.In 1996, when Time magazine named...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A lifetime making mischief with DNA
Creator of both the first antiviral compound and a landmark AIDS drug, William Prusoff is a study in the quiet pursuit...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
The OCR forms three new ventures, assists in mergers of others
The Office of Cooperative Research pressed forward during the past year with the creation of three new ventures and...
Summer 1998
Hunting down HIV
A Yale professor has engineered a virus that attacks and destroys HIV in cell culture. Other scientists at the School...
