Tu Youyou Elected as Foreign Academician of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

On April 29th local time, the website of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 new members and 30 foreign associates, recognizing their outstanding and sustained achievements in original research. Among them, Nobel laureate Tu Youyou, professor at the Qinghaosu Research Center of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, was elected as a foreign associate.

Screenshot of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences website

According to the WeChat Official Account "China Education Online," up to now, there are a total of 2,662 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 556 foreign associates.

The National Academy of Sciences was founded in 1863 as a private non-profit organization. It is one of the top organizations in the United States for science, engineering, and medicine, with renowned scholars and experts from various fields, including Nobel laureates and recipients of the National Medal of Science. Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest academic honors in the United States. Members of the academy are selected based on their outstanding contributions and importance to their respective fields. These members are elected through high recognition of their reputation and prestige. The National Academy of Sciences also has two important affiliated institutions: the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). These affiliated institutions have their own members and missions, dedicated to promoting and supporting the development and innovation of engineering and medicine.

The newly elected Chinese scholars include Tu Youyou, Fu-Lun Zhang, Yi-Bai Zhang, Shan-Hui Fan, Hai-Ling Jin, Fang-Hua Lin, Jian-Guo Liu, Jun Liu, Shu-Ou Shan, Kang Shen, and Ji-Zhong Zhou.

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou, female, Han nationality, member of the Communist Party of China, born in December 1930, from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. She graduated from the Pharmacy Department of Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Health Science Center) in 1955.

After graduation, she was assigned to work at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Ministry of Health (now the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences), where she currently serves as the director of the Qinghaosu Research Center of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, lifetime researcher, chief researcher, and doctoral supervisor. She has been engaged in research on traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Her notable contribution is the discovery and development of the novel antimalarial drugs artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. In 1978, the "523" research group led by Tu Youyou of the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received commendation at the National Science Congress. In 1979, "New Antimalarial Drug Artemisinin" won the second prize of the National Invention Award. In 2011, she received the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, and in 2015, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She also received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in the same year, the National Top Science and Technology Award in 2017, the title of Reform Pioneer in 2018, and the Medal of the Republic in 2019.

Fu-Lun Zhang

Dr. Edward Chang (Zhang Fu-Lun), member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Neuroprosthetics at the University of California, Berkeley and UCSF. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Amherst College in 1997, his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2004, completed his residency training at UCSF in 2010, and completed his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley in 2009. He was awarded the 2015 Blavatnik National Life Sciences Laureate and the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for his contributions to deciphering the neural code of speech. In 2022, he received the Pradel Neuroscience Award from the National Academy of Sciences.

Yi-Bai Zhang

Yi-Bai Zhang, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Smith College in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1982. He conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University from 1982 to 1986 and served as an Assistant Professor (Assistant Professor) and Associate Professor (Associate Professor) at Yale University in 1987 and 1993 respectively. Since 1997, he has been a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Massachusetts.

Professor Yi-Bai Zhang has published more than a hundred papers in prestigious international journals such as Nature, Science, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, Plant Cell, elife, etc. He has received numerous honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his contributions to understanding the molecular and cellular biological processes of plant fertilization and polarized cell growth, and the Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research. She has served as editor-in-chief of the specialty journal of Plant Physiology and as an associate editor of Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (FCDB), Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, and other international journals. Moreover, Professor Yi-Bai Zhang and Professor Henming Wu have made significant contributions to nurturing talent in the field of plant reproduction both internationally and domestically.

Shan-Hui Fan

Shan-Hui Fan is a professor at Stanford University, elected for his contributions to radiation cooling research (For showing that "the coldness of space" relative to Earth can be a major energy source for humankind).

Shan-Hui Fan graduated from Guangdong Experimental High School. In 1988, he entered the Special Class for Young Students at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) under the pilot program for teaching reform (Class Zero). In 1992, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue a Ph.D. in Physics and obtained his doctorate in 1997. Dr. Shan-Hui Fan is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Fan is an APS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow, and OSA Fellow.

Hai-Ling Jin

Professor Hai-Ling Jin obtained her bachelor's degree in Biology from Wuhan University in 1991 and her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology in 1996. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and the John Innes Center in the UK. Currently, she is a professor at the University of California, Riverside. During her career, she has received numerous honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) in 2020, receiving the Jubilee Lecture Award from the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) in 2021, and being elected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2022.

Professor Hai-Ling Jin's main research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of plant immunity and pathogen virulence. Her major research projects include cross-species RNA interference (RNAi) and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA transport between plants and pathogens, the role of small molecules in plant-pathogen interactions, and epigenetic regulation of plant immune responses.

Professor Hai-Ling Jin served as the editor-in-chief of Plant Physiology from 2015 to 2021 and as the editor-in-chief of Journal of Integrative Plant Biology from 2012 to 2017. She currently serves as an editorial board member of Stress Biology, Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction, Non-coding RNA, and other journals.

Fang-Hua Lin

Fang-Hua Lin is a joint professor at New York University Shanghai and the Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Professor Lin received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Zhejiang University and her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. Her research fields include classical analysis and applied analysis, partial differential equations, geometric measure theory, and the calculus of variations.

Professor Fang-Hua Lin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She has received numerous academic awards and honors, including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Award and the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989), the National Science Foundation Outstanding Young Investigator Award (1998), the AMS Bôcher Prize (2002), and the Chern Shiing-Shen Award at the World Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (2004).

Jian-Guo Liu

Jian-Guo Liu is a world-renowned ecologist, sustainable development scientist, and expert on environmental issues in China. He graduated from the Plant Protection Program at Hunan Agricultural University in 1983, earned a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, went to the United States for further study in 1988, and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1992; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University from 1992 to 1994 and served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2001-2002), Harvard University (2008), and Princeton University (2009). He has served on multiple national and international academic committees and task forces.

He is currently the Rachel Carson Chair Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, Distinguished University Professor, and director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. He established and leads the International Network for Human-Natural Coupled Systems Research, and has led dozens of interdisciplinary integrated research projects funded by government agencies and international organizations such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health. His articles have been published in top academic journals such as Nature and Science. He is on the editorial boards of Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Ecology and Society, Journal of Resources and Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning, Ecosystems, Ecological Modelling, Acta Ecologica Sinica, and others.

Jun Liu

Jun Liu, professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He graduated from the Mathematics Department of Peking University in 1985 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991. Professor Jun Liu has made foundational contributions to sequential Monte Carlo and particle filter methods, constructed important theoretical frameworks and new technologies for Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and these have been widely applied in many fields such as engineering, bioinformatics, big data analysis, and personalized medicine. He successfully applied Bayesian models and MCMC methods to the field of bioinformatics. The "Gibbs conservative string sampling and pointer" proposed by him is one of the two most popular algorithms used by biologists to find intricate patterns in DNA and protein sequences. It has had very successful applications in understanding gene regulation and protein homology. In recent years, Professor Jun Liu has achieved a series of breakthrough advancements in statistical learning theory and methods, having a significant impact on big data processing. Professor Jun Liu has received honors such as the 2002 COPSS Presidents' Award, NSF CAREER Award, Morningside Applied Mathematics Gold Medal, ICSA Outstanding Achievement Award, and ICSA Pao-Lu Hsu Award. He is an ISI Highly Cited Mathematician, IMS Medallion Lecturer, Bernoulli Lecturer, IMS Fellow, and ASA Fellow. He has served as co-editor of ASA journals and associate editor of several leading international statistical journals. In 2000, he was appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholar by Peking University, in 2015, he led the establishment of the Center for Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University and served as honorary director, and in 2024, he led the creation of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University as the head of the development committee.

Shu-Ou Shan

In 1994, she earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, and in 2000, she obtained her Ph.D. from Stanford University, receiving training in biochemistry, enzymology, and physical organic chemistry. After completing postdoctoral training in cell biology and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, she joined the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 2005 and became a full professor in 2011.

She has received numerous honors and awards, including the University of Maryland CRC Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award, the Lieberman Graduate Research Fellowship at Stanford University, the Charles Yanofsky Graduate Research Award at Stanford University, Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fund Fellowship, the Jane Coffin Child Memorial Fellowship (which she declined), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Biomedical Sciences, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Beckman Young Investigator Award, the David and Lucile Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship, the ASCB Women in Cell Biology Young Investigator Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Protein Society Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Young Investigator Award, and the National Academy of Sciences Molecular Biology Award.

Kang Shen

Professor Kang Shen, researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Neuroscience from Duke University in 1999, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2003, he joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of biology, and in 2013, he was appointed as a tenured professor of biology and pathology at Stanford University. Professor Shen's primary research focuses on the development of the human brain and nervous system. Recently, his related research results have been published as corresponding authors in academic journals such as Cell, Science, NATURE, DEVELOPMENTAL CELL, Nature communications, Neuron, Cell reports, NATURE NEUROSCIENCE, ELIFE, JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE, Current biology, PLOS GENETICS, ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSIOLOGY, etc.

Ji-Zhong Zhou

Ji-Zhong Zhou, born in August 1959 in Xinshao, Hunan Province, is a biologist and alumnus of the Plant Protection Program at Hunan Agricultural University, class of 1977. He is currently a professor at the University of Oklahoma, director of the Environmental Genomics Institute, director of the Environmental Technology Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a professor at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University. His research focuses include microbial functional genomics, genomic research techniques, microbial ecology, microbes in extreme environments, and community and ecosystem genomics, among other areas.

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