Junjie Yang, MD, PhD is a biomedical scientist specializing in cardiovascular biology, endothelial function, and regenerative medicine. She earned her M.D. from Qingdao University, M.S. from Second Military Medical University, and Ph.D. from Osaka University. Dr. Yang has over a decade of research experience spanning preclinical models of ischemic injury, RNA therapeutics, CRISPR-based gene editing, and exosome biology. She has held research positions at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Emory University, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Nat Commun, J Am Heart Assoc, and Theranostics, with notable studies on endothelial progenitor cells, modified RNA-mediated reprogramming, and cell-type-specific exosomes. She is a member of the American Heart Association and has received honors including the AHA Innovative Project Award (2019) and Junior Faculty Award at the VII ACRE-APS Symposium (2020).