University of Pennsylvania

Yi-Wei Chang is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in the United States.

Yi-Wei received his PhD in structural biology from National Tsing-Hua University and Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was then trained with Grant Jensen at the California Institute of Technology as a postdoc using cryo-electron tomography to study macromolecular structures and mechanisms in the cellular context.

In 2019, Yi-Wei launched his own laboratory continues to use and improve cryo-electron tomography for studying cellular structural biology, with an emphasis on host-pathogen interactions.