Background
Yu was born in 1975 in Zhejiang, China.
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Junying Yu
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In 1997, Yu graduated from the Department of Biology of Peking University in Beijing. She then went to the United States to continue her study, and obtained Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.
Career
She is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2003, Yu joined James Thomson"s lab at UW–Madison as a researcher Yu is an important leader in developing novel method of reprogramming adult cells to create pluripotent cells which are not from embryonic stem cells.
In November 2007, a study done by Yu et al.
This groundbreaking result was published in Science. Yu, along with Thomson and Shinya Yamanaka, was recognized as one of the "Person of the Year" for 2007 by the Time magazine.
