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Yang Shi, PhD

Yang Shi, PhD

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Oxford, England 

Class of 2022

Scientific Areas of Expertise: Chromatin Biology, RNA Methylation, Transcription 

For groundbreaking discoveries that have revolutionized the chromatin biology and epigenetic fields and have had a far-reaching impact on basic and translational cancer research, including the demonstration that histone methylation is reversible and dynamically regulated and the discovery of the first histone demethylase, LSD1.