Professor Ian Yang
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Ian Yang

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Background

Professor Ian Yang is a Thoracic Physician and Director of Thoracic Medicine at The Prince Charles Hospital, and Head of the PCH-Northside Clinical Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Availability

Professor Ian Yang is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Cardiovascular medicine and haematology Clinical sciences Oncology and carcinogenesis Respiratory diseases

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Medicine Surgery, The University of Queensland
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University of Newcastle
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

Research interests

  • Clinical and translational research in chronic lung diseases

    Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of chronic lung diseases, including COPD, asthma, lung cancer, mesothelioma and effects of air pollution

Research impacts

His clinical work is in the field of thoracic medicine, and his research team is studying gene-environmental interaction in COPD, asthma, lung cancer and air pollution. He is involved in the training of higher degree students in translational research into lung diseases.

He is a Chair of the National COPD Guidelines Committee of the Lung Foundation Australia, and a member of the COPD Coordinating Committee. He is Chair of the Medical Programs and Research Advisory Committee of the Asthma Foundation Queensland NSW.

Search Professor Ian Yang’s works on UQ eSpace

361 works between 1999 and 2025
All (361) Journal Article (265) Book Chapter (10) Conference Publication (85) Other Outputs (1)

121 - 140 of 361 works

2018

Journal Article

Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing Across Tumors from 8,705 Patients

Kahles, Andre, Lehmann, Kjong-Van, Toussaint, Nora C., Huser, Matthias, Stark, Stefan G., Sachsenberg, Timo, Stegle, Oliver, Kohlbacher, Oliver, Sander, Chris, Ratsch, Gunnar, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing Across Tumors from 8,705 Patients. Cancer Cell, 34 (2), 211-224.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.07.001

Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing Across Tumors from 8,705 Patients

2018

Journal Article

Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

Bailey, Matthew H., Tokheim, Collin, Porta-Pardo, Eduard, Sengupta, Sohini, Bertrand, Denis, Weerasinghe, Amila, Colaprico, Antonio, Wendl, Michael C., Kim, Jaegil, Reardon, Brendan, Kwok-Shing Ng, Patrick, Jeong, Kang Jin, Cao, Song, Wang, Zixing, Gao, Jianjiong, Gao, Qingsong, Wang, Fang, Liu, Eric Minwei, Mularoni, Loris, Rubio-Perez, Carlota, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Cortés-Ciriano, Isidro, Zhou, Daniel Cui, Liang, Wen-Wei, Hess, Julian M., Yellapantula, Venkata D., Tamborero, David, Gonzalez-Perez, Abel, Suphavilai, Chayaporn ... Ding, Li (2018). Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell, 174 (4), 1034-1035. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.034

Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

2018

Journal Article

Erratum: The Cancer Genome Atlas Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Ricketts, Christopher J., De Cubas, Aguirre A., Fan, Huihui, Smith, Christof C., Lang, Martin, Reznik, Ed, Bowlby, Reanne, Gibb, Ewan A., Akbani, Rehan, Beroukhim, Rameen, Bottaro, Donald P., Choueiri, Toni K., Gibbs, Richard A., Godwin, Andrew K., Haake, Scott, Hakimi, A. Ari, Henske, Elizabeth P., Hsieh, James J., Ho, Thai H., Kanchi, Rupa S., Krishnan, Bhavani, Kwiatkowski, David J., Lui, Wembin, Merino, Maria J., Mills, Gordon B., Myers, Jerome, Nickerson, Michael L., Reuter, Victor E., Schmidt, Laura S. ... Mariamidze, Armaz (2018). Erratum: The Cancer Genome Atlas Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cell Reports, 23 (12), 3698. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.06.032

Erratum: The Cancer Genome Atlas Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Renal Cell Carcinoma

2018

Journal Article

Prostate-specific membrane antigen avidity on positron emission tomography scan in malignant pleural mesothelioma

Ekanayake, Siyaguna K. D. M., Yang, Ian A., Godbolt, David B., Windsor, Morgan N., Henderson, Daniel, Kyle, Samuel, Sterling, David and Lee, Joseph C. (2018). Prostate-specific membrane antigen avidity on positron emission tomography scan in malignant pleural mesothelioma. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 89 (9), E406-E407. doi: 10.1111/ans.14694

Prostate-specific membrane antigen avidity on positron emission tomography scan in malignant pleural mesothelioma

2018

Journal Article

Diagnosis of the cause of chronic dyspnoea in primary and tertiary care: characterizing diagnostic confidence

Huang, Yao C., Ferry, Olivia R., McKenzie, Scott C., Bowman, Rayleen, Hamilton, Michael, Masel, Philip J., Fong, Kwun M. and Yang, Ian A. (2018). Diagnosis of the cause of chronic dyspnoea in primary and tertiary care: characterizing diagnostic confidence. Journal of Thoracic Disease, 10 (6), 3745-3756. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.183

Diagnosis of the cause of chronic dyspnoea in primary and tertiary care: characterizing diagnostic confidence

2018

Journal Article

Working while unwell: Workplace impairment in people with severe asthma

Hiles, S. A., Harvey, E. S., McDonald, V. M., Peters, M., Bardin, P., Reynolds, P. N., Upham, J. W., Baraket, M., Bhikoo, Z., Bowden, J., Brockway, B., Chung, L. P., Cochrane, B., Foxley, G., Garrett, J., Hew, M., Jayaram, L., Jenkins, C., Katelaris, C., Katsoulotos, G., Koh, M. S., Kritikos, V., Lambert, M., Langton, D., Rivero, A. L., Marks, G. B., Middleton, P. G., Nanguzgambo, A., Radhakrishna, N. ... Gibson, P. G. (2018). Working while unwell: Workplace impairment in people with severe asthma. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 48 (6), 650-662. doi: 10.1111/cea.13153

Working while unwell: Workplace impairment in people with severe asthma

2018

Journal Article

The Immune Landscape of Cancer

Thorsson, Vesteinn, Gibbs, David L., Brown, Scott D., Wolf, Denise, Bortone, Dante S., Yang, Tai-Hsien Ou, Porta-Pardo, Eduard, Gao, Galen F., Plaisier, Christopher L., Eddy, James A., Ziv, Elad, Culhane, Aedin C., Paull, Evan O., Sivakumar, I. K. Ashok, Gentles, Andrew J., Malhotra, Raunaq, Farshidfar, Farshad, Colaprico, Antonio, Parker, Joel S., Mose, Lisle E., Nam Sy Vo,, Liu, Jianfang, Liu, Yuexin, Rader, Janet, Dhankani, Varsha, Reynolds, Sheila M., Bowlby, Reanne, Califano, Andrea, Cherniack, Andrew D. ... Yang, Ian (2018). The Immune Landscape of Cancer. Immunity, 48 (4), 812-830.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2018.03.023

The Immune Landscape of Cancer

2018

Journal Article

Comparative Molecular Analysis of Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinomas

Liu, Yang, Sethi, Nilay S., Hinoue, Toshinori, Schneider, Barbara G., Cherniack, Andrew D., Sanchez-Vega, Francisco, Seoane, Jose A., Farshidfar, Farshad, Bowlby, Reanne, Islam, Mirazul, Kim, Jaegil, Chatila, Walid, Akbani, Rehan, Kanchi, Rupa S., Rabkin, Charles S., Willis, Joseph E., Wang, Kenneth K., McCall, Shannon J., Mishra, Lopa, Ojesina, Akinyemi I., Bullman, Susan, Pedamallu, Chandra Sekhar, Lazar, Alexander J., Sakai, Ryo, Thorsson, Vesteinn, Bass, Adam J., Laird, Peter W., The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). Comparative Molecular Analysis of Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinomas. Cancer Cell, 33 (4), 721-735.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.03.010

Comparative Molecular Analysis of Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinomas

2018

Journal Article

Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

Taylor, Alison M., Shih, Juliann, Ha, Gavin, Gao, Galen F., Zhang, Xiaoyang, Berger, Ashton C., Schumacher, Steven E., Wang, Chen, Hu, Hai, Liu, Jianfang, Lazar, Alexander J., Cherniack, Andrew D., Beroukhim, Rameen, Meyerson, Matthew, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy. Cancer Cell, 33 (4), 676-689.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.03.007

Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

2018

Journal Article

A Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Molecular Study of Gynecologic and Breast Cancers

Berger, Ashton C., Korkut, Anil, Kanchi, Rupa S., Hegde, Apurva M., Lenoir, Walter, Liu, Wenbin, Liu, Yuexin, Fan, Huihui, Shen, Hui, Ravikumar, Visweswaran, Rao, Arvind, Schultz, Andre, Li, Xubin, Sumazin, Pavel, Williams, Cecilia, Mestdagh, Pieter, Gunaratne, Preethi H., Yau, Christina, Bowlby, Reanne, Robertson, A. Gordon, Tiezzi, Daniel G., Wang, Chen, Cherniack, Andrew D., Godwin, Andrew K., Kuderer, Nicole M., Rader, Janet S., Zuna, Rosemary E., Sood, Anil K., Lazar, Alexander J. ... Yang, Ian (2018). A Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Molecular Study of Gynecologic and Breast Cancers. Cancer Cell, 33 (4), 690-705.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.03.014

A Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Molecular Study of Gynecologic and Breast Cancers

2018

Journal Article

lncRNA Epigenetic Landscape Analysis Identifies EPIC1 as an Oncogenic lncRNA that Interacts with MYC and Promotes Cell-Cycle Progression in Cancer

Wang, Zehua, Yang, Bo, Zhang, Min, Guo, Weiwei, Wu, Zhiyuan, Wang, Yue, Jia, Lin, Li, Song, Xie, Wen, Yang, Da, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). lncRNA Epigenetic Landscape Analysis Identifies EPIC1 as an Oncogenic lncRNA that Interacts with MYC and Promotes Cell-Cycle Progression in Cancer. Cancer Cell, 33 (4), 706-720.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2018.03.006

lncRNA Epigenetic Landscape Analysis Identifies EPIC1 as an Oncogenic lncRNA that Interacts with MYC and Promotes Cell-Cycle Progression in Cancer

2018

Journal Article

Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

Sanchez-Vega, Francisco, Mina, Marco, Armenia, Joshua, Chatila, Walid K., Luna, Augustin, La, Konnor C., Dimitriadoy, Sofia, Liu, David L., Kantheti, Havish S., Saghafinia, Sadegh, Chakravarty, Debyani, Daian, Foysal, Gao, Qingsong, Bailey, Matthew H., Liang, Wen-Wei, Foltz, Steven M., Shmulevich, Ilya, Ding, Li, Heins, Zachary, Ochoa, Angelica, Gross, Benjamin, Gao, Jianjiong, Zhang, Hongxin, Kundra, Ritika, Kandoth, Cyriac, Bahceci, Istemi, Dervishi, Leonard, Dogrusoz, Ugur, Zhou, Wanding ... Yang, Ian (2018). Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas. Cell, 173 (2), 321-337.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.035

Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

2018

Journal Article

Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer

Hoadley, Katherine A., Yau, Christina, Hinoue, Toshinori, Wolf, Denise M., Lazar, Alexander J., Drill, Esther, Shen, Ronglai, Taylor, Alison M., Cherniack, Andrew D., Thorsson, Vesteinn, Akbani, Rehan, Bowlby, Reanne, Wong, Christopher K., Wiznerowicz, Maciej, Sanchez-Vega, Francisco, Robertson, A. Gordon, Schneider, Barbara G., Lawrence, Michael S., Noushmehr, Houtan, Malta, Tathiane M., Stuart, Joshua M., Benz, Christopher C., Laird, Peter W., The Cancer Genome Atlas Network and Yang, Ian (2018). Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer. Cell, 173 (2), 291-304.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.022

Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer

2018

Journal Article

An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics

Liu, Jianfang, Lichtenberg, Tara, Hoadley, Katherine A., Poisson, Laila M., Lazar, Alexander J., Cherniack, Andrew D., Kovatich, Albert J., Benz, Christopher C., Levine, Douglas A., Lee, Adrian V., Omberg, Larsson, Wolf, Denise M., Shriver, Craig D., Thorsson, Vesteinn, Hu, Hai, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics. Cell, 173 (2) 416.e1, 400-416.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.052

An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics

2018

Journal Article

Machine Learning Identifies Stemness Features Associated with Oncogenic Dedifferentiation

Malta, Tathiane M., Sokolov, Artem, Gentles, Andrew J., Burzykowski, Tomasz, Poisson, Laila, Weinstein, John N., Kaminska, Bozena, Huelsken, Joerg, Omberg, Larsson, Gevaert, Olivier, Colaprico, Antonio, Czerwinska, Patrycja, Mazurek, Sylwia, Mishra, Lopa, Heyn, Holger, Krasnitz, Alex, Godwin, Andrew K., Lazar, Alexander J., Stuart, Joshua M., Hoadley, Katherine A., Laird, Peter W., Noushmehr, Houtan, Wiznerowicz, Maciej, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). Machine Learning Identifies Stemness Features Associated with Oncogenic Dedifferentiation. Cell, 173 (2), 338-354.e15. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.034

Machine Learning Identifies Stemness Features Associated with Oncogenic Dedifferentiation

2018

Journal Article

Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

Huang, Kuan-lin, Mashl, R. Jay, Wu, Yige, Ritter, Deborah I., Wang, Jiayin, Oh, Clara, Paczkowska, Marta, Reynolds, Sheila, Wyczalkowski, Matthew A., Oak, Ninad, Scott, Adam D., Krassowski, Michal, Cherniack, Andrew D., Houlahan, Kathleen E., Jayasinghe, Reyka, Wang, Liang-Bo, Zhou, Daniel Cui, Liu, Di, Cao, Song, Kim, Young Won, Koire, Amanda, McMichael, Joshua F., Hucthagowder, Vishwanathan, Kim, Tae-Beom, Hahn, Abigail, Wang, Chen, McLellan, Michael D., Al-Mulla, Fahd, Johnson, Kimberly J. ... Yang, Ian (2018). Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers. Cell, 173 (2), 355-370.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.039

Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

2018

Journal Article

Perspective on Oncogenic Processes at the End of the Beginning of Cancer Genomics

Ding, Li, Bailey, Matthew H., Porta-Pardo, Eduard, Thorsson, Vesteinn, Colaprico, Antonio, Bertrand, Denis, Gibbs, David L., Weerasinghe, Amila, Huang, Kuan-lin, Tokheim, Collin, Cortes-Ciriano, Isidro, Jayasinghe, Reyka, Chen, Feng, Yu, Lihua, Sun, Sam, Olsen, Catharina, Kim, Jaegil, Taylor, Alison M., Cherniack, Andrew D., Akbani, Rehan, Suphavilai, Chayaporn, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Stuart, Joshua M., Mills, Gordon B., Wyczalkowski, Matthew A., Vincent, Benjamin G., Hutter, Carolyn M., Zenklusen, Jean Claude, Hoadley, Katherine A. ... Yang, Ian (2018). Perspective on Oncogenic Processes at the End of the Beginning of Cancer Genomics. Cell, 173 (2), 305-320.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.033

Perspective on Oncogenic Processes at the End of the Beginning of Cancer Genomics

2018

Journal Article

Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

Bailey, Matthew H., Tokheim, Collin, Porta-Pardo, Eduard, Sengupta, Sohini, Bertrand, Denis, Weerasinghe, Amila, Colaprico, Antonio, Wendl, Michael C., Kim, Jaegil, Reardon, Brendan, Ng, Patrick Kwok-Shing, Jeong, Kang Jin, Cao, Song, Wang, Zixing, Gao, Jianjiong, Gao, Qingsong, Wang, Fang, Liu, Eric Minwei, Mularoni, Loris, Rubio-Perez, Carlota, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Cortes-Ciriano, Isidro, Zhou, Daniel Cui, Liang, Wen-Wei, Hess, Julian M., Yellapantula, Venkata D., Tamborero, David, Gonzalez-Perez, Abel, Suphavilai, Chayaporn ... Yang, Ian (2018). Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell, 173 (2) 385.e1, 371-385.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060

Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations

2018

Journal Article

A Pan-Cancer Analysis of Enhancer Expression in Nearly 9000 Patient Samples

Chen, Han, Li, Chunyan, Peng, Xinxin, Zhou, Zhicheng, Weinstein, John N., Liang, Han, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network and Yang, Ian (2018). A Pan-Cancer Analysis of Enhancer Expression in Nearly 9000 Patient Samples. Cell, 173 (2) 399.e1, 386-399.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.027

A Pan-Cancer Analysis of Enhancer Expression in Nearly 9000 Patient Samples

2018

Journal Article

Genomic and Molecular Landscape of DNA Damage Repair Deficiency across The Cancer Genome Atlas

Knijnenburg, Theo A., Wang, Linghua, Zimmermann, Michael T., Chambwe, Nyasha, Gao, Galen F., Cherniack, Andrew D., Fan, Huihui, Shen, Hui, Way, Gregory P., Greene, Casey S., Liu, Yuexin, Akbani, Rehan, Feng, Bin, Donehower, Lawrence A., Miller, Chase, Shen, Yang, Karimi, Mostafa, Chen, Haoran, Kim, Pora, Jia, Peilin, Shinbrot, Eve, Zhang, Shaojun, Liu, Jianfang, Hu, Hai, Bailey, Matthew H., Yau, Christina, Wolf, Denise, Zhao, Zhongming, Weinstein, John N. ... Yang, Ian (2018). Genomic and Molecular Landscape of DNA Damage Repair Deficiency across The Cancer Genome Atlas. Cell Reports, 23 (1), 239-254.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.076

Genomic and Molecular Landscape of DNA Damage Repair Deficiency across The Cancer Genome Atlas

Availability

Professor Ian Yang is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Diagnosis and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Improving approaches to the early diagnosis, monitoring and management of patients with COPD

  • Lung ageing

    Genetics and epigenetics of ageing in the lung

  • The lung's response to air pollution

    Gene-environment interaction in the lung's response to exposure to air pollutants

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Biomarkers of lung cancer

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong

  • Master Philosophy

    Elastin turnover in the lung microenvironment and its significance in Lung Repair and Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC)

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Blood biomarkers for lung cancer screening

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong, Associate Professor Henry Marshall

  • Master Philosophy

    A multivariable prediction model for osteoporotic fracture in a lung cancer screening cohort

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong, Associate Professor Henry Marshall

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Randomised pragmatic trial of comprehensive tissue sampling enabled by ultrathin bronchoscopic Radial probe EndoBronchial Ultrasound versus CT-guided TransThoracic needle aspiration/biopsy (REBUTT) for evaluation of peripheral pulmonary lesions.

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Precision medicine in the genomic era: emerging technologies for molecular profiling of lung cancer

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Kwun Fong

Completed supervision

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