About: Hao Yan

Hao Yan is a Chinese-born chemist. Hao Yan graduated from Shandong University, and completed doctoral study in the subject at New York University, under the direction of Nadrian Seeman in 2001. Yan began his career as an assistant research professor at Duke University, before assuming an assistant professorship at Arizona State University in 2004. He was promoted to full professor in 2008. In 2012, Yan was named ASU's first Milton D. Glick Distinguished Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The next year, Yan became director of ASU's Center for Molecular Design and Biomimicry, which later became the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics. In 2019, Yan was ranked as a highly cited researcher by Web of Science, and elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancemen