Shi Yigong
Shi Yigong was born in Zhumadian, Henan, China on May 5th, 1967 and is the Chinese Biologist. At the age of 57, Shi Yigong biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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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. 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. In 2003, he was appointed a Chair Professor of Tsinghua's Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology. In late 2007, He was appointed Vice Director of Tsinghua's Institute of Biomedicine and Vice Dean of Tsinghua's Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology before returning to China. 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.
Shi renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2011 in order to reclaim his Chinese citizenship.
- 2020, the Tan Kah Kee Science Award
- 2017, the Future Science Prize in Life Sciences.
- 2016, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award for Achievement in Science and Technology.
- 2015, Nature Award for Mentoring in science.
- 2014, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2013, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2013, foreign associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 2013, Academician Chinese Academy of Sciences, 中国科学院院士
- 2010 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize
- Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, from the Protein Society
- Searle Scholar Award
- Rita Allen Scholar Award
- 2000, Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award
- 1995, Paul Ehrlich Research Award in Basic Science