Gee Su Yang

Ph.D., RN, FAAN

Assistant Professor

She/Her/Hers

Dr. Yang’s research focus is cancer prevention and survivorship. Her overall program of research is focused on identifying biobehavioral mechanisms underlying the development and persistence of psychoneurological symptoms (e.g., pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, depression, and anxiety) and developing precision-based approaches to symptom management in cancer survivors to improve their quality of life and functioning. Currently, she is passionate about characterizing phenotypes and investigating novel biological processes of aromatase inhibitor-associated musculoskeletal symptoms and immunotherapy-associated adverse symptoms.

Yang is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Nursing. She received her BSN and MSN from Seoul National University in South Korea and her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Maryland. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Florida College of Nursing through an NIH/NINR F32 individual postdoctoral fellowship. Her preclinical and clinical cancer research projects were and/or are being supported by the NIH/NINR training award, Oncology Nursing Foundation, Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award, American Nurses Foundation/Midwest Nursing Research Society, American Society for Pain Management Nursing, Healthy Americas Foundation, and Global Korean Nursing Foundation.

Research/Scholarship Interests

• Cancer prevention and survivorship
• Psychoneurological symptoms related to cancer treatment
• Multi-omics approaches (Genetics/Epigenetics/Gut microbiome)
• Cancer-related aging

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida
• Ph.D., Nursing, University of Maryland
• MSN, Seoul National University, South Korea
• BSN, Seoul National University, South Korea

Honors & Awards

• 2026: Virginia A. Henderson Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research Award, Connecticut Nurses Association
• 2026-: Oncology Nursing Society & Oncology Nursing Foundation Nurse Scientist Advisory Panel
• 2026: Guest Editor, Oncology Nursing Forum Precision Oncology Supplement
• 2026-: Associate Editor, Oncology Nursing Forum
• 2025: Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
• 2024-2026: Connecticut Breast Health Initiative Research Grant (Role: PI)
• 2024-2027: UConn OVPR Clinical Research and Innovative Seed Program (Project: Exploring the impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors on cognitive function on older cancer survivors: a pilot study, Role: PI)
• 2022-2024: NINR R01NR018595 (Project: Neurophysiological and transcriptomic predictors of chronic low back pain: Towards precision pain management, MPI: Dorsey/Renn/Starkweather, Role: Site PI)
• 2022-2024: Oncology Nursing Foundation RE03 Research Grant (Project: Longitudinal relationships between the gut microbiome and psychoneurological symptoms in immunotherapy treatments, Role: PI)
• 2022-2024: Global Korean Nursing Foundation-USA Mi Ja Kim Research Grant (Role: PI)
• 2022-2023: Healthy Americas Research Consortium of the Healthy Americas Foundation Cervical Cancer and Screening Research Grant (Role: PI)
• 2022-2024: The Rockefeller University Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award (Project: Investigating the effect of social determinants of health and intestinal microbiome on psychoneurological symptoms among patients on immunotherapy, Role: PI)
• 2022: Butler-Williams Scholar, National Institute on Aging
• 2021-2024: UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) Faculty Seed Grant (Role: PI)
• 2021-2024: UConn School of Nursing Dean’s Award for Seed Grants (Role: PI)
• 2021-2024: American Society for Pain Management Nursing Research Grant (Role: PI)
• 2018-2020: NINR F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Role: PI)
• 2015: Student Research Facilitation Award, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Biology & Behavior Across the Lifespan (BBAL) Center of Excellence
• 2015: Mia Loizeaux Scholarship, University of Maryland School of Nursing
• 2014-2016: Oncology Nursing Society Foundation Purdue Pharmaceuticals Trish Greene Pain Assessment and Management Grant (Role: PI)
• 2013: Mia Loizeaux Scholarship, University of Maryland School of Nursing
• 2012 – 2014: Dean Scholarship, University of Maryland School of Nursing

Selected Publications

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