Dr. Yu Sifan

Resume (Education and Working Experience)

Education:

1. 2013 B.S., Beijing Institute of Technology
2. 2017 M.A., Sun Yat-sen University
3. 2020 Ph.D., Sun Yat-sen University

Work Experience:

1. 2020-2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Chinese Medicine, HKBU.
2. 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for the Advancement of Chinese Medicine (Technology Talent Admission Scheme).
3. 2022-Now  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Chinese Medicine, CUHK.

Research Interests:

1. Design of long-lasting aptamers.
2. Discovery of small molecule inhibitors targeting sclerostin.
3. Discovery of small molecule inhibitors targeting hinge of connective tissue growth factor.

Representative publications in reverse:

1. Yu S, Li D, Zhang N, Ni S, Sun M, Wang L, Xiao H, Liu D, Liu J, Yu Y, Zhang Z, Yeung STY, Zhang S, Lu A, Zhang Z, Zhang B, Zhang G, Drug discovery of sclerostin inhibitors, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2022, 12, 2150-2170.
2. Yuan Ma, Sifan Yu (co-first author), Ge Zhang*, et al. Targeting Strategies for Enhancing Paclitaxel Specificity in Chemotherapy. Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 2021, 9, 599.