Dr. Bingfang Yan is a BPS Department Chair and Professor at University of Rhode Island, USA. Dr. Bingfan Yan was appointed to serve a three year term as the Chair of the Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (BPS) Department commencing October 1, 2013. Dr. Yan is a long-time researcher at the College of Pharmacy, where he has focused on the understanding of how genetic and environmental factors coordinate regulation of the expression. Dr. Yan is an author of Encyclopedia of Drug Metabolism and Interactions.

Genetic-based alteration on drug response, disease diagnosis, drugs, herbs, hormones, and their interaction, Cancer: initiation, progression and chemoresistance Transcription regulation.