Surgery Branch
Senior Investigator

National Cancer Institute
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 10, Room 2B37
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone: 301-496-1574
Fax: 301-496-0011
james_yang@nih.gov

Dr. Yang graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in biology. He then completed his M.D. and surgical internship and residency at the University of California, San Diego. In 1984, he came to the Surgery Branch, NCI, as a medical staff fellow. He subsequently became a senior staff fellow, then a senior investigator in 1987. He has been involved in studies of the immune response to tumor-associated antigens and has been a principal investigator of clinical trials in renal cell carcinoma and soft tissue sarcoma.

Dr. Yang's Clinical Trial(s):

NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is currently conducting the following trial(s) for patients with renal cell carcinoma. Click on the trial(s) below for additional details, including a summary of eligibility criteria, study outline, and information on how to contact the study team directly.

Phase I/II Study of Metastatic Renal Cancer Using T-Cells Transduced With a T-Cell Receptor Which Recognizes TRAIL Bound to the DR4 Receptor NCI-09-C-0092