Xiangzhong “Jerry” Yang, a world-renowned cloning scientist, died yesterday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, following a long battle with cancer. He was 49.
Yang, first to produce a cloned animal from an adult farm animal in the United States at the University of Connecticut, was the founding director of UConn’s Center Regenerative Biology and Medicine.
He leaves his wife, Xiuchun “Cindy” Tian, an associate professor in animal science at UConn, and a son, Andrew, 18.
