Yousong Ding

Yousong Ding, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Florida in the College of Pharmacy. He received his B.S. in applied chemistry from Peking University. He received his M.S. focusing on fungal secondary metabolite synthesis from the University of Nebraska, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research interests include natural product biosynthesis, drug discovery and development, synthetic biology, protein engineering, and chemical biology.