Yang Youxin

Youxin Yang (Chinese: 杨有新; pinyin: Yáng Yǒu Xīn), M.D., Ph.D. is an award-winning scientist, award-winning filmmaker, and award-winning painter.

Early career
Dr. Youxin Yang started her career in China and then advanced her education in France. After finishing her medical education in Nanjing, she received her Ph.D. from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (Paris VI). She was awarded a prize from the Association for the Study of Pediatric Pathology in 1999 for her work on the WT1 Gene in Denys Drash Syndrome and Diffuse Mesangial Sclerosis.

Awards
"Feuille" (Leaf in English), the first feature film by Dr. Youxin Yang won the top (Platinum) Remi Award at the 37th WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival. This film tells a story of two female artists: a Chinese painter Meihua (Youxin Yang) and a French photographer Feuille (Sabine Bail). Dr. Youxin Yang was the first Chinese female writer/director/leading actress to win the top Remi Award. Three years later, following 12 awards Feuille has won worldwide acclaim. Leaf (Musical Version), with new images and a new theme song "True Love Has Only One End", written and composed by Dr. Yang herself, won another Remi (Gold) Award at the 40th WorldFest - Houston on April 28, 2007.

She won the "Award of Excellence" in the 2005 Accolade Competition for writing the song "Silent Fire" for her second feature film "Silent Fire", which also won Best Score at the New York International Independent Film Festival (2005).

She was a Grand Jury Award winner at the New York International Art Festival, 2005.