Dr. Nieng Yan received her B.S. degree from the Department of Biological Sciences &Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000. She then pursued her PhD in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University under the supervision of Prof. Yigong Shi between 2000 and 2004. She was the regional winner of the Young Scientist Award (North America) co-sponsored by Science/AAAS and GE Healthcare in 2005 for her thesis on the structural and mechanistic study of programmed cell death. She continued her postdoctoral training at Princeton University, focusing on the structural characterization of intramembrane proteases. In 2007, she joined the faculty of School of Medicine, Tsinghua University.Her lab has beenmainly focusing on the structural and functional study of membrane transport proteinsexemplified by the glucose transporters and Nav/Cavchannels.In 2012and 2013, she was promoted to tenured professorand Bayer Endowed Chair Professor, respectively. Shereturned toPrinceton University as the founding Shirley M. Tilghman Professorof Molecular Biologyin 2017. Dr. Yan wasan HHMI international early career scientistin 2012-2017, Cheung Kong Scholar, the recipientof the 2015 Protein Society Young Investigator Awardand the 2015 Beverley & Raymond Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, and the Alexander M. Cruickshank lecturer at the GRC on membrane transport proteins in 2016. https://molbio.princeton.edu/people/nieng-yan