Professor Yang
Zhen Yang, Professor
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EDUCATION
| Ph. D. In Chemistry M.S. in Medicinal Chemistry B.S. in Medicinal Chemistry |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1989-1992) Shenyang College of Pharmacy, P. R. China (1983-1986) Shenyang College of Pharmacy, P. R. China (1978-1982) |
EXPERIENCE
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2006.1-present |
Dean of School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, PKUSZ |
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2003.1-present |
Director of Key Laboratory of Chemical Genomics, PKUSZ |
| 2001.9-present | Changjiang Professor College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, China Research Interest: Total Synthesis of Natural Product and Organometallic Chemistry Diversity Oriented Synthesis and Chemical Biology |
| 2005.9-present | Director of Chemistry XTL Biophamaceutical, New York, USA Research Interest: Medicinal Chemistry and Combinatorial Chemistry |
| 2001.5-2005.9 | Co-Founder and Director of Chemistry VivoQuest. Inc. New York, USA Research Interest: Anti-Viral Drug Discovery |
| 1998.5-2001.5 | Institute fellow Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology, Harvard University Research Interest:Diversity Oriented Synthesis |
| 1995.6-1998.5 | Assistant Professor The Scripps Research Institute Research Interest: Total Synthesis of Complex Natural Products |
| 1992.5-1995.5 | Postdoctoral Fellow The Scripps Research Institute Topic: Total Syntheses of Taxol, Brevetoxin A and Epothilone A |
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Investigator Award (abroad), NSF of China;
2003 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Investigator Award, NSF of China;
2005 Eli Lilly Scientific Excellence Award (China);
2008 The Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, the Asian Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry programs;
2009 Baogang Distinguished Teaching Award of Peking University;
2010 Wuxi Pharma Life Science Excellence Award (Golden Metal)
2013 “Zhou Weishan” Synthetic Creative Work Award (Chemical Society of China)
2013 Nanyue hundrade outstanding scholar award (Guangdong Provence)
2003 The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Investigator Award, NSF of China;
2005 Eli Lilly Scientific Excellence Award (China);
2008 The Asian Core Program Lectureship Award, the Asian Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry programs;
2009 Baogang Distinguished Teaching Award of Peking University;
2010 Wuxi Pharma Life Science Excellence Award (Golden Metal)
2013 “Zhou Weishan” Synthetic Creative Work Award (Chemical Society of China)
2013 Nanyue hundrade outstanding scholar award (Guangdong Provence)
2013 The first class prize of the Shenzhen Natural Science Award
2014 The first class prize of the Guangdong Natural Science Award
2014 The special prize of the Yunnan Natural Science Award
2014 The special prize of the Yunnan Natural Science Award
2015 The Excellent Talent Awards of Shenzhen
2016 The second class prize of the National Natural Science Award
Editorial and Professional Service:
2007 Advisory Board, Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry
2010 Advisory Board, Combinatorial Science of ACS
2010 Advisory Board, Combinatorial Science of ACS
2010 Academic Board, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry
2011 Advisory Board, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis of Wiley-VCH
2011 Advisory Board, Natural Products and Bioprospecting of Springer
2011 Advisory Board, MedChemComm of RSC Publishing
2011 Advisory Board, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis of Wiley-VCH
2011 Advisory Board, Natural Products and Bioprospecting of Springer
2011 Advisory Board, MedChemComm of RSC Publishing
2014 Editorial Board, National Science Review of Oxford University Press
2016 Advisory Board, ACS Central Science
2017 Editorial Board, Natural Product Reports
2017 Academic Board, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research