Shi Yigong
Shi Yigong | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 5, 1967 |
| Nationality | Chinese US (formerly) |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University (B.S.) Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Programmed cell death (apoptosis) Membrane protein |
Shi Yigong (Chinese: 施一公; born May 1967) is a famous Chinese biophysicist in the field of protein X-ray crystallography. Right now he is a university professor at Tsinghua University and serves as vise president of Tsinghua University. He is also the founding president of West Lake University in Hanzhou, China.
Career
Shi Yigong received his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. In 1995 when receiving his PhD degree in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University, he has determined the crystal structure of several critical apoptotic proteins, including apaf-1, DIAP1, and the BIR3 domain of XIAP. He was the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in the department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. In June 2008, he was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.[1] However, he rejected the award upon resigning his position at Princeton University in order to pursue his career at Tsinghua University, becoming the dean of the School of Life Sciences there.[2] In 2003, he was appointed a Chair Professor of Tsinghua's Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. He was appointed Vice Director of Tsinghua's Institute of Biomedicine and Vice Dean of Tsinghua's Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology in 2007. He was appointed Dean of Tsinghua's School of Life Sciences (replacing the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology) in 2009. He was elected as a foreign member of National Academy of Science, USA, a foreign member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Shi renounced U.S. citizenship in 2011.[3][4]
Awards
- 2014, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize[5]
- Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, from the Protein Society
- Searle Scholar Award
- Rita Allen Scholar Award
References
- ^ Four faculty selected as Howard Hughes investigators. News at Princeton, June 9, 2008. Accessed November 2, 2008
- ^ Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home, New York Times, January 7, 2010.
- ^ "中科院院士：施一公落选院士是因国籍问题". Caijing. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2012-05-12.
- ^ Internal Revenue Service (26 October 2011). "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register.
- ^ "THE RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACKLER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN BIOPHYSICS". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
External links
- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Zhengzhou
- Chinese biologists
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- People who lost United States citizenship
- Tsinghua University alumni
- Tsinghua University faculty
- Scientists from Henan
- Howard Hughes Medical Investigators