Bayer China Academic Collaboration Award 2022 unveiled

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Appendix: Full list of the Bayer China Academic Partnership Award 2022 winners (in alphabetical order)

Peking University

Bayer Endowed Chair

Xuemei Chen

Chair Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: flower development, small RNAs, and RNA modifications in plants

Bayer Investigator

Jun Liu

Assistant professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: the novel molecular mechanism of how RNA modification regulate gene transcription and disease-related biological functions

Junyu Xiao

Associate Professor / Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: understanding the structure and function of important molecular machineries, especially focuses on the study of human immunoglobulins

Xuefeng Zhang

Investigator, Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Peking University

Research interests: the mechanisms of antibody diversification and genome stability

Yulong Li

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: developing tools to study neuromodulation and neuronal connectomics and understand complex mechanisms with high spatial and temporal resolution

Yiguang Wang

Boya Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, Peking University

Research interests: designing and developing smart nanomedicines to achieve precise tumour imaging and "on demand" drug delivery

Ying Zhang

Investigator, School of Life Sciences, Peking University; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences

Research interests: cancer immunology and immunotherapy

Bayer Postdoc

Haowei Meng

Postdoc, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: the development of off-target detection methods for genome editing tools

Qingqing Li

Postdoc, School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Research interests: using the leading-edge omics sequencing technology in combination with patient-derived organoid model to study key issues of cancer biology

Xiao Zhou

Postdoc, Department of Medical Bioinformatics, Peking University

Research interests: discovering and explaining interesting biological phenomena, while working on improving understanding of the mechanisms of disease development to aid in clinical practice

Tsinghua University

Bayer Endowed Chair

Song-Hai Shi

Dean, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

Research interests: identifying the common commodities of brain circuits at both the structural and functional levels

Bayer Investigator

Jiajun Zhu

Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University

Research interests: reveal the molecular mechanism and metabolic basis of human diseases such as cancer

Sai Li

Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

Research interests: cryo-electron tomography and its applications in in-situ structural biology, especially in studying emerging enveloped viruses

Zhucheng Chen

Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

Research interests: structural chromatin biology, with particular interest in the mechanism of gene regulation at the chromatin level in health and disease

Bayer Microfunding