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Zhiqiang Yan

Professor and Dean

School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University, China

Investigator and Director

Institute for Medical Physiology, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing, China

Email:

zqyan@ccmu.edu.cn; zqyan@cimrbj.ac.cn

zqyan@szbl.ac.cn

Introduction

Dr. Zhiqiang Yan obtained his bachelor's degree from Fudan University in 2004, then he pursued his Ph.D. degree in Neurobiology, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Biology Sciences, Beijing & Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2004-2009. He received postdoctoral training in Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan group at Howard Hughes Medical Institute &University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, USA. In 2013, he was appointed as a professor at Fudan University. Then, he joined the Institute of Molecular Physiology of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory as a senior principal investigator in 2020 and was appointed as deputy director. In 2024, he took on the role of professor and dean at the School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University. Also, he became an investigator and director at the Institute for Medical Physiology, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing. Dr. Yan has published papers as the first or corresponding author in journals including Nature, Neuron, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, PNAS, Nature Communications, eLife, Cell Reports, etc. He was funded by 4 National Key Research and Development Projects of China and 2 programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Biography

  • WORK   EXPERIENCE

2024 - Present     Institute for Medical Physiology, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing                                           Investigator and Director
2024 - Present     School of Basic Medical Sciences, Capital Medical University   

                             Professor and Dean
2020 - 2024          Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory        
                             Senior Investigator and Deputy Director
2013 - 2020          Fudan University        Professor
2009 - 2013          HHMI & UCSF            Postdoctoral Researcher

  • EDUCATIONAL   BACKGROUND

2004 - 2009          Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National                                                                 Institute of Biological Sciences  Beijing & Institute of Biophysics,                                                                     Chinese Academy of Sciences     Ph.D.

2000 - 2004          Fudan University     B.S.

  • AWARDS

2010 - 2013         Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Long-term Fellowship

2014                    The Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar of Shanghai)

2014                    The Shanghai Rising-Star Program

YAN LAB

This is the Research Group of 

Zhiqiang YAN.

Studying the Molecular and Circuitry Basis of Sensory Perception.

RECRUITMENT

The group welcome applications

from perspective postdoc and students.

LOCATION

Capital Medical University & Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing

Beijing  No. 10, Xi Toutiao, outside You'anmen, Fengtai District, Beijing, China

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