Shi Yigong Explained

Shi Yigong
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date:5 May 1967
Birth Place:Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Nationality:Chinese
Field:Programmed cell death (apoptosis)
Membrane protein
Relatives:Shi Ping (grandfather)
Thesis Title:Molecular mechanisms of zinc finger protein-nucleic acid interactions
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/docview/304200817/
Thesis Year:1995
Doctoral Advisor:Jeremy Berg
Doctoral Students:Yan Ning
Module:
Child:yes
S:施一公
T:施一公
P:Shī Yī Gōng
Order:st

Shi Yigong (; born 5 May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018.[1] 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.[2]

Education

Shi Yigong received a Bachelor of Science with majors in biology and mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1995.[3] [4] He studied at Iowa State University for three months in 1990, before transferring to Johns Hopkins University.[5]

During his graduate studies, he determined the crystal structure of several critical apoptotic proteins, including apaf-1, DIAP1, and the BIR3 domain of XIAP.

Career

Shi Yigong 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.[6] 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.[7] 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 founding and 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.[8] [9]

Personal life

Shi's grandfather was academic and politician Shi Ping.[10] According to Shi, his father, Shi Huailin (施怀琳), was named after his mother Yang Lin (杨琳), who died 18 days after his birth, with 怀琳 literally meaning "remembering Lin."[11] [12] As a result of his grandfather's work commitments, his father was estranged from his grandfather as a child, and friends and family raised his father.[11] [12] Shi's father and grandfather eventually reunited later in life.[11] [12]

His father died in 1987, at the age of 52.

His grandfather died on 29 June 2024, at the age of .

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Major posts set by Westlake University's board of trustees . 2018-11-19 . chinaplus.cri.cn . 2018-11-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181119132926/http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20180417/119053.html . live .
  2. Web site: Curriculum Vitae – Yigong Shi . 2023-03-04 . The SHI Lab . 2021-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211026161125/https://ygshi.org/static/CV_YigongShi.pdf . live .
  3. Web site: 施一公博士 . 2023-03-04 . Westlake University . 2023-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230304171657/https://www.westlake.edu.cn/faculty/yigong-shi.html . live .
  4. Web site: Yigong Shi . 2023-03-04 . American Academy of Arts and Sciences . en . 2023-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230304171632/https://www.amacad.org/person/yigong-shi . live .
  5. Web site: 科学网—[转载]施一公：我是这样读英文科研论文的 - 理文编辑的博文 ]. 2023-09-11 . blog.sciencenet.cn . 2023-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230911195200/https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-288924-1386136.html . live .
  6. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/30/28A32/index.xml?section=topstories,featured Four faculty selected as Howard Hughes investigators.
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07scholar.html?hpw Fighting Trend, China Is Luring Scientists Home
  8. News: 中科院院士：施一公落选院士是因国籍问题. Caijing. 2011-12-14. 2012-05-12. 2012-02-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20120220173542/http://politics.caijing.com.cn/2011-12-14/111520042.html. live.
  9. News: Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G. Internal Revenue Service. Federal Register. 26 October 2011. 15 May 2012. 13 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113180935/http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/10/26/2011-27570/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate-as-required-by-section-6039g. live.
  10. Web site: 施一公百岁爷爷专访：从成功学运到受困的教育改革 . 搜狐教育 . zh . Learning.sohu.com . 2015-12-05 . 2024-06-21 . 2017-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170222073356/http://learning.sohu.com/20151205/n429828705.shtml.
  11. Web site: sina_mobile . 2024-06-29 . 113岁新四军老战士施平逝世，系施一公院士祖父 . 2024-06-29 . news.sina.cn.
  12. Web site: 113岁新四军老战士施平逝世，系施一公院士祖父_中国政库_澎湃新闻-The Paper . 2024-06-29 . www.thepaper.cn.
  13. Web site: Tan Kah Kee Science Award---Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2021-10-17. 2021-05-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210515212444/http://english.casad.cas.cn/history/TKKSA/. live.
  14. https://ygshi.org/static/CV_YigongShi.pdf
  15. Web site: Awards . 2023-03-23 . CHINESE BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATORS SOCIETY . en . 2023-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230329104632/https://www.cbisociety.org/awards.html . live .
  16. Web site: THE RAYMOND & BEVERLY SACKLER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE IN BIOPHYSICS . . March 30, 2010 . June 29, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120629053633/http://www.tau.ac.il/president/sackler-biophysics.html . live .

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