Research Scientist
Ashland Specialty Ingredients
Dr. Fengyuan (George) Yang is a Research Scientist at Ashland. Before joining Ashland, he was an associate scientist at Merck & Co. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in polymer science and engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. His research interest is the application of polymers on developing functional materials. Recently, he is actively working on the application of polymeric excipients to better formulation and therapeutic performance. In the past few years, Dr. Yang has published 2 book chapters, ~25 papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed ~30 presentations or posters to scientific conferences.