title: Junying Yuan: changing avenues without losing focus. Interview by Nicole LeBrasseur.
abstract: An interest in neurodegenerative diseases drove Junying Yuan to study cell death as a graduate student at Harvard University. Now a full professor at the hallowed institute, Yuan is moved by the same interest in a new direction--the removal of misfolded proteins.
authors.forename: Junying
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D020169:Caspases / Q000378:metabolism; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008404:Massachusetts; D017510:Protein Folding
chemical_list: D020169:Caspases