pages

「应可钧」Kejun Albert Ying

📢 On the Job Market
I am actively seeking tenure-track faculty positions starting in 2026. My research focuses on aging biology, protein design, and AI-driven intervention discovery. Please feel free to reach out if you have opportunities or would like to discuss potential collaborations.
Solve aging first, and with time, we'll solve all remaining challenges of humanity.

Hello! I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in Tony Wyss-Coray’s lab and University of Washington in David Baker’s lab, supported by an NIH/NIA F99K00 fellowship. I earned my Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Harvard Medical School (2025) in Vadim Gladyshev’s lab and an M.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering from Harvard SEAS (2024). My research merges aging biology with protein design to tackle neurodegeneration, focusing on the causes of aging, epigenetics, metabolism, and multi-omics. I’m building the next generation of therapeutics through machine learning and protein design. I am currently on the job market seeking tenure-track faculty positions starting in 2026.

news
2025-01 Excited to join Tony Wyss-Coray lab at Stanford University & Baker lab at Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington as F99K00 Postdoc fellow! Merging aging biology + protein design to tackle neurodegeneration. 🧬
2025-03 Officially Dr. Ying! I successfully defended my Ph.D. at Harvard.
2025-03 We are featured as semifinalist of Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Health Care and Life Sciences Track.
2025-01 MethylGPT is featured in Eric Topol’s opinion piece in Science Magazine!
2025-01 I co-founded Avinasi Labs, a platform fostering collaboration and data sharing to overcome fragmented data and funding barriers in longevity science.
2024-12 My interview with Brenda at A4LI is online!
2024-11 We released the one of the first foundation models for the DNA methylome – MethylGPT.
2024-10 My perpective on causal inference in epigenetic aging is published in Nature Reviews Genetics!
2024-10 My paper on centenarian LoF mutations is published in Nature Communications!
2024-10 Congratulations to my postdoc co-mentor, David Baker, for winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
2024-02 I received a perfect Impact Score of 10 in the NIA F99/K00 application!
2024-02 Our paper on the causal role of DNA methylation in aging featured on the cover of Nature Aging.
2023-12 I received the best poster award on Inaugural Biomarker of Aging Symposium.
socials