Ke Yang

Ke Yang is an associate in the Litigation group. She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she served as a staff editor and submissions committee member of the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, in addition to serving as a teaching fellow and research assistant.

Prior to law school, Ke worked as a patent agent and scientific analyst at a prominent international law firm, with experience in patent drafting, patent prosecution, portfolio management and due diligence inquiries.

Ke earned her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Scripps Research Institute. She focused her doctoral research on protein dynamics and structure of transcription factors using high-resolution NMR and crystallography. She received her B.S. in Chemical Biology from Tsinghua University, where she conducted research on de novo chemical protein synthesis methodology.

Publications

• “Mispacking of the F87 Sidechain Drives Aggregation-promoting Conformational Fluctuations in the Subunit Interfaces of the Transthyretin Tetramer,” Protein Science 33(9): e5101 (March 2024)
• “Determining Binding Kinetics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy,” Methods in Molecular Biology 2141, 663-681 (2020)
• “Structural Basis for Cooperative Regulation of KIX-mediated Transcription Pathways by the HTLV-1 HBZ Activation Domain,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115 (40) 10040-10045 (September 2018)