Deborah Yelon PhD

Deborah Yelon received her Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University, where she studied T cell development with Leslie Berg. She then began to investigate heart development in zebrafish as a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Didier Stainier at the University of California, San Francisco. She was a member of the faculty of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at New York University School of Medicine from 2000 to 2009. She has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award and an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.