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词条 Shi Yigong
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  1. Career

  2. Awards

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox scientist
|image =
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|5|5}}
|birth_place = Zhengzhou, Henan, China
|nationality = Chinese
US (formerly)
|field = Programmed cell death (apoptosis)
Membrane protein
|alma_mater = Tsinghua University (B.S.)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
|workplaces = Tsinghua University
Westlake University
}}{{Chinese name|Shi}}Shi Yigong ({{zh|c=施一公}}; born May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist in the field of protein X-ray crystallography. He was the Dean of School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University, and has been the first President of Westlake University since April 2018.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] 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. In 2018, He became the first president of Westlake University, a newly established private university in Hangzhou.[1]

Shi renounced U.S. citizenship in 2011.[4][5]

Awards

  • 2014, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize[6]
  • Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, from the Protein Society
  • Searle Scholar Award
  • Rita Allen Scholar Award

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20180417/119053.html|title=Major posts set by Westlake University's board of trustees|website=chinaplus.cri.cn|access-date=2018-11-19}}
2. ^Four faculty selected as Howard Hughes investigators. News at Princeton, June 9, 2008. Accessed November 2, 2008
3. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07scholar.html?hpw Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home], New York Times, January 7, 2010.
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://politics.caijing.com.cn/2011-12-14/111520042.html|title=中科院院士:施一公落选院士是因国籍问题|work=Caijing|date=2011-12-14|accessdate=2012-05-12}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/10/26/2011-27570/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate-as-required-by-section-6039g|author=Internal Revenue Service|title=Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G|work=Federal Register|date=26 October 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/president/sackler-biophysics.html |title=THE RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACKLER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN BIOPHYSICS |publisher=Tel Aviv University |accessdate=March 30, 2010}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707030826/http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/eng__news.php?id=1501 Dr. Shi Yigong Appointed Vice Director of Tsinghua’s Institute of Biomedicine], Tsinghua University News
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20121024110955/http://news.xinhuanet.com/school/2008-05/08/content_8127981.htm Why coming back to China is the best choice (in Chinese)]
  • Yigong Shi bio page, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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