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Yiyun Henry Huang, PhD

Professor and Director of Chemistry and Co-Director of the PET Center at Yale University School of Medicine

Location: New Haven, CT United States

Dr. Yiyun Henry Huang is the Director of Chemistry and a professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven. He is also Co-Director of the university’s Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center. Dr. Huang has over 20 years of experience in radiochemistry and novel PET radiotracer development, as well as application of PET imaging in the investigation of addictive disorders and neuropsychiatric diseases. Specifically, he has developed, or participated in the development of a number of PET radiotracers for the dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, nicotinic acetylcholine and opioid neurotransmitter systems.


Associated Grants

  • Development of Selective PET Imaging Agents for Alpha-synuclein and Tau

    2021


  • Discovery of Selective PET Imaging Agents for Tauopathies and Alpha-Synuclein

    2020


  • Developing New 18F-based Brain Tracers for Imaging Synapse in the Human Brain

    2019


  • Developing New 18F-based Brain Tracers for Imaging Nerve Interactions (Synapses) in the Human Brain

    2018


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