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Yufeng Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. His research focuses on developing efficient protein engineering methods and their applications in functional proteins, pharmaceutical science, and cell biology disease diagnostics. He designs fluorescent protein-based biosensors to track analytes such as ions and metabolites in live cells, elucidating disease mechanisms to advance drug development. Yufeng develops high-throughput screening platforms that accelerate the engineering of functional proteins, including fluorescent proteins, enzymes, and antibodies. His work addresses the challenge of efficiently designing proteins, which are complex biomolecules serving as essential building blocks of life and powerful tools in biosynthesis and disease treatment. Yufeng's team aims to design high-throughput platforms based on microfluidic technologies that can measure the functionalities of protein libraries and generate datasets larger than those produced by conventional manual approaches. He has designed a microfluidic fluorescent activated cell sorter to enhance biosensor engineering and has contributed to the development of genetically encoded biosensors for visualizing biochemical events in live cells.
Stanford University School of Medicine • Stanford, CA
Conducted research on protein engineering and biosensor development.
Department of Sociology