Nan Yan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Endowed Title: Rita C. and William P. Clements, Jr. Scholar in Medical Research

Department: Internal Medicine, Microbiology

Graduate Programs: Immunology, Molecular Microbiology

Education

Undergraduate Fudan University - China (1999), Microbiology
Graduate School University of Texas at Austin (2006), Molecular Biology

Research Interests

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • HIV pathogenesis
  • Innate immunity
  • Retrovirology

Publications

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SAMHD1 does it again, now in resting T cells.

Yan N, Lieberman J Nat. Med. 2012 Nov 18 11 1611-2

Intrinsic antiviral immunity.

Yan N, Chen ZJ Nat. Immunol. 2012 Mar 13 3 214-22

HIV DNA is heavily uracilated, which protects it from autointegration.

Yan N, O'Day E, Wheeler LA, Engelman A, Lieberman J Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2011 May 108 22 9244-9

Gaining a foothold: how HIV avoids innate immune recognition.

Yan N, Lieberman J. Curr Opin Immunol. February 2011 23(1) 21-8

The SET complex acts as a barrier to autointegration of HIV-1.

Yan N, Cherepanov P, Daigle JE, Engelman A, Lieberman J. PLoS Pathog. March 2009 5(3) e1000327

Identification of host proteins required for HIV infection through a functional genomic screen.

Brass AL, Dykxhoorn DM, Benita Y, Yan N, Engelman A, Xavier RJ, Lieberman J, Elledge SJ. Science February 2008 319(5865) 921-6

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Honors/Awards

  • Endowed Scholar Award, UTSW
    (2011)
  • NIAID Career Development Award (K22)
    (2011)
  • Young Investigator Award, CORI
    (2008)
  • Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Scholar Award
    (2007)