Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award Honors Dr. Yang Haitao

ON2019-12-31TAG: ShanghaiTech UniversityCATEGORY: SIAIS

Dr. Yang Haitao, Shanghai Institute of Advanced Immunochemical Institute (SIAIS) Principal Investigator, recently was awarded the 2019 Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award, marking the first time a ShanghaiTech faculty member won this  prize.

Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award Winners and the Presenters

The Shu Lan Medicine Awards, first awarded in 2014, recognize distinguished scientists and scholars. Youth Shu Lan Medicine Award was specially set up to recognize the outstanding scientific and technological accomplishments of the younger generation of scientists and scholars. This year’s award ceremony took place in Hangzhou on November 16th, 2019. Nearly 20 academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) attended the ceremony, including Zhu Chen (CAS member, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress), Shusen Zheng (CAE member, Chair of Shu Lan Foundation), and Lanjuan Li (CAE member, Chair of Shu Lan Foundation).

Dr. Yang Haitao is Principal Investigator of Lab of Infection and Anti-infection at SIAIS and Associate Professor at the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST).  Dr. Yang received his BS degree from Sichuan University (2001), and his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University (2006). Following his postdoctoral research at the Yale University (2006-2011), he was promoted to Associate Research Scientist (2011-2013). He joined Tianjin University in 2013, where he became Full Professor and served as Vice Dean of School of Life Sciences (2013-2017). He is also Research Professor of Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine (Adjunct) and Director of Infectious Disease Drug Discovery Institute. He joined ShanghaiTech University in 2018 and established the Lab of Infection and Anti-infection at SIAIS. Read more at:  http://siais.shanghaitech.edu.cn/siais_eng/LabofInfectionandAntiwinfection/list.htm


Shu Lan Medicine Awards Winners 2019

Special Shu Lan Medicine Awards Winner

Paul Ulrich Unschuld (Professor, Charité-Medical University Berlin)

Shu Lan Medicine Awards Winners

Zhang Boli  (CAE member), Shang Yongfeng  (CAS member)

Youth Shu Lan Medicine Awards Winners

Dong Hailong, Ren Shancheng, Guo Guoji, Yang Haitao, Zheng Yuanyi, Zhang Yingmei, Zhang Yonghui, Lei Xiaoguang, Yuan Quan, Wang Dayan