Ya-Wen is an Isidore Friesner Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves as the Scientific Director for the Institute for Airway Sciences and the Co-Scientific Director of the Center for Epithelial and Airway Biology and Regeneration at Mount Sinai. She also serves as the Director of Basic Science Research for the Department of Otolaryngology. Additionally, Ya-Wen is a member of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Mount Sinai.

She pioneered the work in lung organoid development and directed differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells to respiratory epithelial cells.

Ya-Wen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology and the Columbia Center for Human Development at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She was a Parker B. Francis Fellow, Baxter Faculty Fellow, the Catalyst Awardee, and the Isidore Friesner Scholar.

Ya-Wen is an active advocator for gender equality and LGBTQ rights!

Ya-Wen is an Isidore Friesner Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves as the Scientific Director for the Institute for Airway Sciences and the Co-Scientific Director of the Center for Epithelial and Airway Biology and Regeneration at Mount Sinai. She also serves as the Director of Basic Science Research for the Department of Otolaryngology. Additionally, Ya-Wen is a member of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Mount Sinai.

She pioneered the work in lung organoid development and directed differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells to respiratory epithelial cells.

Ya-Wen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology and the Columbia Center for Human Development at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She was a Parker B. Francis Fellow, Baxter Faculty Fellow, the Catalyst Awardee, and the Isidore Friesner Scholar.

Ya-Wen is an active advocator for gender equality and LGBTQ rights!

Ya-Wen is an Isidore Friesner Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves as the Scientific Director for the Institute for Airway Sciences and the Co-Scientific Director of the Center for Epithelial and Airway Biology and Regeneration at Mount Sinai. She also serves as the Director of Basic Science Research for the Department of Otolaryngology. Additionally, Ya-Wen is a member of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at Mount Sinai.

She pioneered the work in lung organoid development and directed differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells to respiratory epithelial cells.

Ya-Wen received her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology and the Columbia Center for Human Development at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She was a Parker B. Francis Fellow, Baxter Faculty Fellow, the Catalyst Awardee, and the Isidore Friesner Scholar.

Ya-Wen is an active advocator for gender equality and LGBTQ rights!