Charles Yeh
PhD student
Charles Yeh received his Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2014. He then joined the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NCATS-NIH). As a member of the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program, Charles developed and applied human stem cell-derived disease models to identify potential therapeutics for rare lysosomal storage disorders, including Farber and Wolman diseases. In 2018, he joined the IGI as a graduate student and is presently studying the mechanisms of DNA repair homology search in the context of gene editing.