Professor and Dean, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University
Prof. Dr. Weimin Li has been a physician and researcher at the Respiratory Department of West China Hospital since he got his master's in 1991 and later doctoral degree in 1995 at the West China University of Medical Sciences, which was merged with Sichuan University in 1999. His specialty and research interest includes diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases, especially of pulmonary infection and lung cancer. Prof. Li has been PI for more than ten research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Sci-tech Pillar Project of the Eleventh Five-year Plan of China, and by the governments of Chengdu and Sichuan Province, China. He has published more than 240 research articles on journals including Cell, Chest, Cancer Re, Clin Cancer Res, Cancer, Int J Cancer, Mol Cancer, Cancer Lett et al. He is the editor-in-chief of West China Medical Journal and the associate editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Lung Disease. Prof. Weimin Li is the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Clinical Precision Medicine.
Kang Zhang, MD, PhD is currently the Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). Dr. Zhang obtained his M.D. with Magna Cum Laude honors from Harvard Medical School and MIT joint MD program and his PhD in genetics from Harvard University. He did his postdoctoral training also at Harvard. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University and his retina surgery fellowship at University of Utah. He was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University of Utah, and UC San Diego.
Dr. Zhang has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts in top peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of topics in genetics, epigenetics, stem cells, nano-engineering and 3D printing, clinical trials, and artificial intelligence. He has more than 24,000 citations and an h-index of 75. His discovery that HTRA1 is a major susceptibility gene for age-related macular degeneration is listed as one of “top-ten breakthroughs in 2006” in Science Magazine. His groundbreaking work on lens regeneration using endogenous stem cells is named as one of “Eight Breakthroughs in 2016” by Nature Medicine. His pioneering work on using AI to identify medical diagnoses and treatable diseases using AI was named a cover story and one of the best papers in 2018 by Cell.
Affiliation: the Sterling Professor of Genetics at the Yale School of Medicine
After attending Harvard Medical School, Weissman interned at Boston City Hospital and was a research fellow with the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute before taking a faculty position at Yale. Weissman mentored Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, during Collins's postdoctoral fellowship at Yale. In 1978, Weissman published the complete nucleic acid sequence of the SV40 genome. Weissman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
Barry J. Marshall, Nobel Prize Laureate, Fellow of Royal Society, Academician of NAS, University of Western Australia (AUS)
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Hartmut Michel, Nobel Prize Laureate, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics (Germany)
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Laurie Goodman, Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience.
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Yang Huanming, Academician of CAS, Co-founder and Chairman of Board of the Beijing Genomics Institute.
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Mingqing Du, University of Cambridge (UK)
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Xinyuan Fu, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (China)
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Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Duke University (USA)
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Xin Lu, University of Oxford (UK)
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Xinghua Pan, South Medical University (China)
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Simon Travis, University of Oxford (UK)
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Chen Wang, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (China)
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Cunyu Wang, Academician of CAE, University of California Los Angeles (USA)
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Yuquan Wei, Academician of CAS, Sichuan University (China)
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Jessy J. Alexander, University at Buffalo (USA)
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Claus Bachert, University of Munster (Germany)
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Marianna Bei, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)
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Eric Brouzes, Stony Brook University (USA)
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Jean-Baptiste Cazier, University of Birmingham (UK)
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Bo Chen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA)
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Lei Chen, West China Hospital of Sichuan University (China)
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Yingzi Cong, Northwestern University (USA)
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Guoping Fan, University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
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Tianming Gao, Southern Medical University (China)
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Georgios V. Gkoutos, University of Birmingham (UK)
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Everett Peter Greenberg, University of Washington (USA)
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Jia Guo, Arizona State University (USA)
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Philip M Hansbro, University of Newcastle (Australia)
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Ye Hu, Tulane University (USA)
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Jiaoti Huang, Duke University (USA)
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Yanfang Jiang, The First Hospital of Jilin University (China)
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Samuel Katz, Yale University (USA)
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Joshua LaBaer, Arizona State University (USA)
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Simon Leedham, University of Oxford (UK)
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Jinming Li, National Center For Clinical Laboratories (China)
Weizhong Li, Sun Yat-sen University (China)
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Zhongxing Liao, MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA)
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Lin Liu, Nankai University (China)
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Zaiyi Liu, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (China)
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Zhanju Liu, Tongji University (China)
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Zhihua Liu, Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (China)
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Manyuan Long, The University of Chicago (USA)
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Scott William Lowe, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
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Jun Lu, Yale University (USA)
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Huiyan Luo, Sun Yat-sen University (China)
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Tak W. Mak, University of Toronto (Canada)
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Christopher E. Mason, Cornell University (USA)
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Miles Parkes, University of Cambridge (UK)
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Gerald B. Pier, Harvard University (USA)
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Ruxana T. Sadikot, University of Nebraska Medical Center (USA)
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Stefan Schreiber, Kiel University (GER)
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Bairong Shen, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (China)
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Bo Shen, Columbia University (USA)
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Richard Spritz, University of Colorado (USA)
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Robert Sutton, University of Liverpool (UK)
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Jack W. Szostak, Nobel Prize Laureate, Academician of NAS, Harvard Medical School (USA)
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Fuchou Tang, Peking University (China)
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Alain R. Thierry, INSERM, Institute of Cancer Research of Montpellier (France)
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Jie Tian, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
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Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Harvard University (USA)
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Alexander Eckehart Urban, Stanford University (USA)
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Charles Wang, Loma Linda University (USA)
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Jun Wang, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
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Yuhao Wang, Zhejiang University (China)
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Jonathan Weissman, University of California, San Francisco (USA)
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Min Wu, University of North Dakota (USA)
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Yilong Wu, Guangdong General Hospital (China)
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Tian Xie, Hangzhou Normal University (China)
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Hua Yang, Army Medical University (China)
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Ping Yang, Mayo Clinic Arizona (USA)
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Qingwu Yang, Army Medical University (China)
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Jinming Yu, Shandong Cancer Hospital & Institute (China)
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Huijun Yuan, West China Hospital of Sichuan University (China)
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Hu Zhang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (China)
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Shuyang Zhang, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (China)
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Wengeng Zhang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (China)
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Zhongyin Zhang, Purdue University (USA)
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Lan Zhao, Imperial College London (UK)
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Kaixin Zhou, Guangzhou National Laboratory (China)
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Shu Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China (China)
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Yunzeng Zou, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (China)
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Tao Zuo, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (China)
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Wei Zuo, Tongji University (China)
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