Jinhai Yu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Schools: Medical School
Departments: Center for Human Nutrition | Internal Medicine

Biography

Jinhai Yu obtained his PhD in Cell Biology in 2014 from Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for research on lipid droplet biology in brown adipose tissue and adrenal gland. From 2014-2018 he was a postdoctoral research scientist in Tsinghua Univeristy where he studied fatty acids and mTOR signaling. From 2018-2021 he was a postdoctoral research scientist in the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern where he studied non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) associated Cachexia.

Now he focuses on studying how STK11/LKB1 mutants in NSCLC and CRC cause cachexia through GDF15 or other new mediators.

Research Interest

Cancer Cachexia, Lipid Metabolism, Lipid Droplet

Honors & Awards

Wellstone Pilot Award
Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center (2025-2025)
China Postdoctoral International Academic Exchange Program Award
(2016-2016)
FASEB Science Research Conference Travel Award
For FASEB Lipid Droplet Conference (2016-2016)
National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant
(2016-2017)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant Award
(2015-2016)