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Professor Zhen Yang Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology Lishui Road 2199, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, 518055 E-mail: zyang@pku.edu.cn |
Zhen Yang studied medicinal chemistry at Shenyang College of Pharmacy and earned a Ph.D. at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992 under the guidance of Professor H. N. C. Wong. He carried out postdoctoral research on natural product synthesis with Professor K. C. Nicolaou at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, USA and joined its faculty in 1995. In 1998, he moved to the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School as an institute fellow before returning to China as a professor at Peking University in 2001. Since 2008, he has served as the founding Dean of the School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. He actively pursues the total syntheses of bioactive natural products and chemical biology research.
EDUCATION
1989 – 1992 |
Ph.D., Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Professor Henry N. C. Wong |
1983 – 1986 |
M.S., Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Shenyang College of Pharmacy, with Professor Qihuai Chen |
1978 – 1982 |
B.A., Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Shenyang College of Pharmacy |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-Curr. |
Professor of Chemistry, Peking University-Tsinghua University Joint Center for Life Sciences (PTCLS) |
2008-Curr. |
Professor of Chemistry, School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Peking University |
2002 – Curr. |
Professor of Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Peking University |
2005 – 2008 |
Director of Chemistry, XTL biopharmaceutical Inc. NY |
2001 – 2005 |
Co-founders and Director of Chemistry, VivoQuest Inc. NY |
1998 – 2001 |
Institute Fellow, Dept. of Cell biology, Harvard Medical School |
1995 – 1998 |
Assistant professor, Dept. of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute |
1992 – 1995 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, with Professor K. C. Nicolaou |
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000 |
The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Investigator Award (abroad), NSF of China |
2004 |
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 |
2016 |
Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, China |
2018 |
Shenzhen mayor Award, Shenzhen |
2023 |
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, RAE |
EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2007 |
Advisory Board Member, Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry |
2010 |
Advisory Board, Combinatorial Science of ACS |
2010 |
Academic Board, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry |
2011 |
Advisory Board Member, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis of Wiley-VCH |
2011 |
Advisory Board Member, Natural Products and Bioprospecting of Springer |
2011 |
Advisory Board Member, MedChemComm of RSC Publishing |
2014 |
Editorial Board, National Science Review of Oxford University Press |
2016 |
Advisory Board, ACS Central Science |
2017 |
Editorial Board Member, National Science Review of Science Press |
2017 |
Advisory Board Member, ACS Central Science of ACS |
2017 |
Editorial Board Member, Natural Product Report of The Royal Society |
2017 |
Academic Board, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research |
2022 |
Editor in Chief, Tetrahedron Letters of Elsevier |