Yu Zhou, PhD

Yu Zhou, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor

Biography

My research interests are in the areas of protein function-structure relationship, protein-protein interactions, and the intervention of protein interactions by antibodies. Current research focuses are recombinant antibody library design, mAb discovery and engineering, immuno-diagnostics and therapeutics. I have worked on projects that include 1) the discovery and engineering of internalizing mAbs targeting basal subtype breast cancer associated membrane proteins for drug delivery, 2) the discovery and engineering of mAbs against serum biomarkers for pancreatic cancer early diagnosis, 3) engineering of antibody Fc to enhance antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and pharmacokinetics, 4) the development of host-targeted broad-spectrum anti-viral therapy, 5) the establishment of high-throughput antibody discovery platform, 6) development of therapeutic mAbs to immune-oncological targets, 7) design and construction of recombinant antibody libraries, and 8) impact of germline sequences to antibody developability. The high-throughput antibody discovery is powerful for generating data of antibody-antigen interactions, which can help uncover protein-protein interactions and the de novo design of antibodies. The phage display and yeast display platform allowed identifying mAbs with high affinity and cross-reactivity, can be applied to all immune-oncological targets.

Education

Post-doc, 03/2004 - Antibody Engineering, UC San Francisco
Ph.D., 10/2000 - Protein Engineering, Peking University
M.S., 7/1991 - Molecular Biology, Peking University
B.S., 7/1988 - Biochemistry, Peking University

Publications