Rao Yi | |||||||
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| 饶毅 | |||||||
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) | ||||||
| Alma mater | Jiangxi Medical College (BS) Shanghai Medical University (MS) University of California, San Francisco (PhD) | ||||||
| Spouse | Jane Ying Wu | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Molecular neurobiology | ||||||
| Institutions | Capital Medical University (President) Peking University (Dean of School of Life Sciences) Harvard University (Helen Hay Whitney Fellow) Washington University in St. Louis Northwestern University | ||||||
| Thesis | Molecular and genetic analyses of cellular communication in drosophila neurogenesis (1991) | ||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Yuh-Nung Jan Lily Jan | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 饶毅 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 饒毅 | ||||||
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| Website | mgv.pku.edu.cn | ||||||
Rao Yi (Chinese: 饶毅; born 1962) is a Chinese neurobiologist. A Ph.D. graduate from the University of California, San Francisco, Rao held a Helen Hay Whitney fellowship at Harvard University and was on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University before moving back to China to take up the deanship of Peking University's School of Life Sciences in 2007.[citation needed] He is currently Director and Principal Investigator of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University.[1]
He took office as the President of the Capital Medical University on 25 June 2019.[2][3]
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