Yuhan is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her research aims at studying the brain-body interactions that govern metabolic regulation and their implications in the context of obesity and diabetes. To achieve this goal, her research utilizes a combination of molecular and functional approaches in animal models to elucidate the neural circuits involved in metabolic regulation and to understand how they become dysregulated in the presence of disease.

Yuhan earned her Ph.D. from Oregon Health & Science University with a focus on developing gene and cell therapies for diabetes. She conducted her postdoctoral training at Janelia Research Campus in Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where she developed spatial and molecular techniques for mapping molecularly defined neuronal types in the mouse brain to study their functional involvement in various behaviors.