Shi Yigong
Shi Yigong | |||||||
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施一公 | |||||||
Shi in 2023 | |||||||
| Born | 5 May 1967 Zhengzhou, Henan, China | ||||||
| Nationality | Chinese (1967–1990) American (1990–2011) Chinese (2011–present) | ||||||
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| Relatives | Shi Ping (grandfather) | ||||||
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| Fields | Programmed cell death (apoptosis) Membrane protein | ||||||
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| Thesis | Molecular mechanisms of zinc finger protein-nucleic acid interactions (1995) | ||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Jeremy Berg | ||||||
| Doctoral students | Yan Ning | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 施一公 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 施一公 | ||||||
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Shi Yigong (Chinese: 施一公; born 5 May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences from 2009 to 2016.