Yunxin Ouyang | Duke University - Segura Lab

Sometimes too much sugar is not necessarily a bad thing… at least that's the case when we want to repair damaged tissue after ischemic stroke. As a firm believer of sugars’ multifunctional roles in disease regulation, Yunxin is working on incorporating stroke-relevant glycans (aka sugars) to MAP gels and studying how the resulting material interacts with key cell types such as neural progenitor cells and microglia to promote regeneration.

11 Oct Yunxin Ouyang

PhD Candidate

Posted at 16:01h in by Lindsay Riley

There’s classy… and then there’s Yunxin. Yunxin received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2020. While an undergraduate, Yunxin worked on tissue engineered cancer microenvironments to understand how adipose stromal cells facilitate the progression and metastasis of breast cancer cells. At Segura Lab, she hopes to study brain glycosylation in the context of ischemic stroke and to engineer glycan-conjugated injectable biomaterials to improve stroke treatment. Outside of lab, Yunxin enjoys a wide range of hobbies, including playing piano, painting, art & music, cooking, wall climbing…just to name a few, while consistently searching for new interests and adventures!

Contact

Email: yunxin.ouyang@duke.edu

Publications

Ling L, Mulligan JA, Ouyang Y, Shimpi AA, Williams RM, Beeghly GF, Hopkins BD, Spector JA, Adie SG, Fischbach C. Obesity-Associated Adipose Stromal Cells Promote Breast Cancer Invasion through Direct Cell Contact and ECM Remodeling. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1910650.