The latest news and top stories on Dan Yang, a distinguished academic. Formerly the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, she recently returned to China to join the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation as a Senior Principal Investigator. Dan's work primarily focuses on understanding neural circuits controlling behaviour, particularly sleep and frontal cortex executive control. Recognised for significant contributions to cortical computation and functional plasticity, she is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of multiple prestigious awards.