Shi Yigong | |||||||
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施一公 | |||||||
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Nationality | Chinese | ||||||
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Relatives | Shi Ping (grandfather) | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
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 | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
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.[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]