Dr. Yang is a senior research associate at the Research Center of Hospital Sainte-Justine, University of Montréal. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry, University de Montréal, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of pharmacology and pediatric oncology, and awarded with Excellent Postdoctoral Fellow, Star Foundation, Canada. She specializes in cancer research and pathological angiogenesis, and has expertise in cellular and molecular biology and the development of animal models of cancers. Her research focuses on the functional studies of cell-derived microvesicles and the molecular mechanisms of targeted therapy for breast cancer, retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma, etc. Dr. Yang has published in Cancer Research, Journal of Biochemistry, Journal of Control Release, Journal of Neuroscience, etc. She is also the first author for several review articles published in Cell Oncology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Cells, Cancers.