Yale University
New Haven, United States
Jacky Yeung, MD is an assistant professor in Neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who started residency in neurosurgery in 2013 after completing undergraduate studies at University of British Columbia in Honors Physiology and his MD degree at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and was elected to the AANS Young Neurosurgeons Committee in 2016. He obtained his fellowship training in minimally invasive, keyhole surgery at the Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery in Sydney, Australia under Dr. Charles Teo.
He was the recipient of the prestigious Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. As a tumor immunologist, he identified the presence of specific antigens in childhood and adult ependymomas, which led to a NIH-funded clinical trial utilizing a peptide vaccine (#NCT01795313). He focused on mechanisms of immune escape in adult gliomas, specifically the relationship between LOH of HLA Class I and decreased survival in GBM patients. During residency, he was the recipient of the prestigious AANS Tumor Section Research Award and focused on identifying novel immune check-point molecules under the mentorship of Lieping Chen, MD, PhD. To date, he has characterized the tumor immune microenvironment in malignant meningiomas and identified a major mechanism by which these tumors evades anti-tumor immunity.
Dr. Yeung also has an extensive research background in personalized brain mapping. He was the first in the world to publish on the use of advanced, pre-operative personalized brain mapping in intracerebral surgery. He continues to collaborate internationally to explore the use of personalized brain mapping in non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of neuropsychocognitive disorders.