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photo Yvette Yien, PhD

Hematology/Oncology

Associate Professor of Medicine

Section of Benign Hematology

Email: yieny@pitt.edu
Contact
 
E-mail: yieny@pitt.edu
Education and Training
Education
PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
BS, National University of Singapore
Research Interest
To understand how mitochondrial homeostasis functionally and structurally interacts with iron metabolism to couple iron utilization with the needs of individual cells.

Understand how iron functions as an effector of cellular development, particularly in tissues that rely heavily on iron/heme such as hepatic and erythroid cells.

Unravel how pregnant mammals adapt erythroid development and iron metabolism for the needs of a pregnancy.

Division Websites

Cardiology

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

General Internal Medicine

Geriatric Medicine
Hematology/Oncology

Infectious Diseases

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Renal-Electrolyte

Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

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