Topic: γ-Secretase and APOE in Alzheimer's Disease

Speaker: Prof. Shi Yigong

Date: Wednesday, Mar.13, 2024

Time: 16:00-17:00

Venue: W201, Administration Building

Language: English

Speaker Profile:

Shi Yigong is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the current president of Westlake University. Prof. Shi mainly uses biochemical and biophysical methods to study the molecular mechanism of cell apoptosis, the structure and function of important membrane proteins, and intracellular biological macromolecules. He analyzes the key complex structure of eukaryotic messenger RNA splicing bodies revealing molecule layer mechanisms. Prof. Shi is a recipient of the Searle Scholar Award, the Rita Allen Scholar Award, the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award (2003), the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics (2010), the Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award of the Qiushi Foundation (2010), the CC Tan Life Science Achievement Award (2010), the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2014), the Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen Medicine and Pharmaceutical Science Award (2014), the ‘You Bring Charm to the World Award’(2015-2016), the Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation (2016), the Future Science Prize of the Life Sciences Prize (2017), the achievement award of the VCANBIO Award for Biosciences and Medicine (2017), and Tan Kah Kee Science Awards(2020). He was also nominated as a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013.