Hong Ling (geneticist)

Hong Ling
红凌
Born	(1966-11-27)November 27, 1966 Wuhan, Hubei, China
Died	February 7, 2020(2020-02-07) (aged 53) Wuhan, Hubei, China
Cause of death	COVID-19
Alma mater	Wuhan University University of Arizona
Scientific career
Fields	genetics, rare diseases
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese name
Chinese	红凌
Traditional Chinese	紅凌
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hóng Líng

Hong Ling (Chinese: 红凌, 27 November 1966 – 7 February 2020) was a Chinese geneticist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Career

Hong was educated at Wuhan University, majoring in biology, where he graduated in July 1987 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In December 1994, he graduated from the University of Arizona with a doctor's degree in biochemistry. After graduation, he started his career as a biochemist at Department of Molecular & Cell Biology (MCB) of University of California, Berkeley. Since March 2007, he served as professor of molecular biology at the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He was studying major and rare human diseases using both human and model organism such as drosophila and mouse.

Death

During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in China, Hong got infected with the coronavirus. On 7 February 2020, he died from the infection at Wuhan Union Hospital.