Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D.

Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D., the Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology and medicine, received the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Award in Experimental Therapeutics for 1999. The award, funded by Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. is given annually for the purpose of recognizing and stimulating outstanding basic laboratory or clinical research that has had, or potentially will have, a major impact on the pharmacological treatment of disease. Past recipients from Yale are Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D. in 1986; William H. Prusoff, Ph.D. in 1982; and Joseph R. Bertino, M.D. in 1970.