Ya Ha, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Departments & Organizations
Affiliated FacultyBiological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Cell Cycle and Signal Transduction; Drug Design, Discovery and Mechanism; Membrane Biology and Motion; crystallography, NMR, mass spectrometry, cryo-electron...faculty
Developmental Therapeutics
Structural Biology
Pharmacology
Developmental Therapeutics
Biography
1988-1992 B.S. Nanjing University1992-1998 Ph.D. University of Minnesota
1998-2001 Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
2007-Present Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Education
- B.S., Nanjing University, 1992
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1998
Selected Publication
- Xue, Y., Lee, S. & Ha, Y. (2011) Crystal structure of amyloid precursor-like protein 1 and heparin complex suggests a dual role of heparin in E2 dimerization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 16229-16234.
Articles

July/August 2011
A young scientist scores another first
“This is the material that’s not in the biochemistry textbooks yet,” says Ya Ha, Ph.D. “This is preliminary work, but...

July/August 2010
A familiar voice speaks up for Alzheimer’s patients, research
It began with a sweatshirt. In December 2007, when Tony- and Emmy-Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce appeared on...

Nov/Dec 2008
Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine
FederalSerap Aksoy, NIH, Evolutionary Genetics of Tsetse and its Symbionts, 5 years, $3,609,045Norma Andrews, NIH,...

May/June 2008
A scientific assault on brain diseases
The School of Medicine is home to outstanding research programs in cell biology and neurobiology, and members of its...



