Principal Investigator

Dr. Yinglong Miao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Computational Medicine Program at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He obtained Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry in Prof. Peter Ortoleva’s lab at Indiana University. He then received training in Biophysics and Pharmacology through postdoctoral studies, first with Profs. Jeremy Smith and Jerome Baudry at Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, and then with Prof. J. Andrew McCammon at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of California San Diego. Dr. Miao started his lab as an Assistant Professor in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022 in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Computational Biology at the University of Kansas. He moved to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2023. Dr. Miao develops novel accelerated simulation methods and applies these methods in advanced simulations of biomolecules and drug discovery. His lab currently focuses on simulations and drug discovery of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), membrane-embedded proteases, RNA-binding proteins and RNA. Dr. Miao currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the npj Drug Discovery journal.

Q&A with Editor-in-Chief for the npj Drug Discovery journal

RNA Collaborative Seminar, 8/13/2025: How Do Small Molecules Bind RNA?

Gaussian accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) workshop, 10/28/2024: Introduction and Overview of GaMD