Jacob Yang is a senior scientist with strong background and experience in the field of immunology and neuroscience, specializing in translating groundbreaking research from bench to bedside.


Prior to joining ARCE therapeutics as the Director of Translational Science, Dr. Yang was a principal investigator in Development Center for Biotechnology in Taiwan, where he led projects developing therapeutics for cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Yang coordinated with multiple functional teams and supervised biologics platform establishment and protein engineering development.


Dr. Yang was a research fellow and principal investigator in Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan. He was in charge of developing genetic tools to study the functions of neural circuits within brain by correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM). Furthermore, Dr. Yang participated in beta-program to develop a modern application on scanning electron microscope for life sciences with FEI Corp. Prior to OIST, Jacob conducted research on Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI in the US, where he directed a team performing pipeline on sample production and data collection.


Dr. Yang holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Neuroscience from University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA and a master’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology from National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.