2007.9-2011.7 山东大学药学院，本科生
2011.9-2016.7 清华大学药学院，博士生
2016.7-2019.10 清华大学药学院，博士后
研究方向：有机化学、药物化学、化学生物学
已发表论文：
Y. Yang, Y. Lin, Y. Rao. Ruthenium (II)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Hydroxylated Arenes with Ester as an Effective Directing Group. Organic Letters, 2012, 14 (11): 2874-2877.
Y. Yang, Z. Chen, Y. Rao. The Synthesis of Diarylsulfones with Simple Arenes and K2S2O8 through Double C-S Bond Formation. Chemical Communications, 2014, 50 (95): 15037-15040.
Y. Yang, Y. Yu, X. Li, J. Li, Y. Wu, J. Yu, J. Ge, Z. Huang, L. Jiang, Y. Rao, M. Yang. Target Elucidation by Cocrystal Structures of NADH-Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase of Plasmodium falciparum (PfNDH2) with Small Molecule to Eliminate Drug-Resistant Malaria. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2017, 60 (5):1994-2005.
Y. Yang, L. Cao, H. Gao, Y. Wu, Y. Wang, F. Fang, T. Lan, Z. Lou, Y. Rao. Discovery, Optimization, and Target Identification of Novel Potent Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Inhibitors, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2019, 62 (8): 4056-4073.
