Le Zhang, PhD

Dr. Le Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on neuroimmune interactions in neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Her lab develops and applies novel single cell and spatial transcriptomic tools for comparative genomic and cellular analyses of human neurological disorders to identify disease- and cell-type-specific features of neuroinflammation. Her work integrates state-of-the-art approaches in neuroscience, immunology, single cell analysis, behavioral assessment, and advanced imaging to investigate the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. 

Dr. Zhang earned her B.S. in Biological Science from Peking University and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from University of Hong Kong and then completed her postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Zhang is the recipient of NIH NIDA Avenir Award and NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Interoception Research Initiative Early Stage Investigator Award.