Biography

Yousaf Mian was born on August 14,1982 in Elgin, IL.  He was raised in Roselle, IL and attended Lake Park High School, graduating in 2000. Yousaf attended Loyola University Chicago on a Presidential Scholarship for his undergraduate degrees, earning a BS in Biology and BA in History, as well as a minor in Chemistry, graduating as part of the class of 2004. As an undergraduate, Yousaf was a member of the Historical Honors Society and studied abroad at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, UK.

After graduation,  Yousaf joined the lab of Dr. Hamid Band, M.D., Ph.D. at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, IL as a Research Assistant, studying the Notch signaling in a C. elegans model.  Upon the close of this project, Yousaf joined the lab of Dr. Vimla Band, Ph.D., studying the role hADA3 in breast cancer development.

In August 2008, Yousaf matriculated to Loyola University Chicago to continue his studies towards a Ph.D. He entered Loyola University Chicago as a student within the Integrated Program in Biomedical Science (IPBS), and joined the Program in Molecular Biology.  Yousaf joined the lab of Dr. Nancy Zeleznik-Le, Ph.D. to study the role of microRNAs in MLL leukemia. 

After graduate school, Yousaf joined the Kipps lab in September 2016, with an interest in expanding his understanding of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.  He is currently working on the advancement of antibody-based therapeutics, including a bispecific antibody that retargets T cells to ROR1 expressing target cells. These approaches utilize the UC-961 antibody, which was developed in the Kipps lab, and seek to expand its applications.

Yousaf currently lives in San Diego, CA with his dog/room-mate Hudson Theodore Puppington, III.  Please contact him if you would like a free dog (disclaimer: he is completely untrained and WILL steal from you).