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Yan Ning, founding president of Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences and director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, has received a new title.
According to the website of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, on July 4th local time, the European Organization for Molecular Biology announced the list of 69 newly selected members to the public. Yan Ning, founding president of Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences and director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, was elected as a foreign member of EMBO as a Chinese scientist.
The above news introduces that Yan Ning is committed to studying the structure and mechanism of transmembrane transport of substances, revealing for the first time the atomic resolution structures of a series of transmembrane proteins with important physiological and pathological significance, such as human glucose transporters, eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium ion channels, and calcium ion channels. This provides a molecular basis for understanding the pathogenesis of related diseases and drug development.
Yan Ning has won honors such as the Science/AAAS and GE Healthcare Young Scientist Awards, the first HHMI International Young Scientist Award in the United States, the China Outstanding Young Female Scientist Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, the International Society of Protein Young Scientist Award, the Sackler International Biophysics Award, the Asia and Oceania Biochemists and Molecular Biologists Union Outstanding Research Award, the Israel Weisman Institute International Female Scientist Award, and the Anatorace Membrane Protein Research Award from the International Biophysics Association. Elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences in 2019, and as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
Public information shows that EMBO is a renowned academic organization in the international biomedical community, founded in 1964 and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. The organization aims to promote cooperation and development in molecular biology and related fields. Every year, outstanding scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the biomedical field are elected as members of the organization. Currently, the organization has more than 1900 top researchers, of which 91 members have won Nobel Prizes. The newly selected EMBO members this year come from over 20 countries, with 60 new members from 17 EMBO member countries and 9 scientists from non organizational member countries elected as foreign members.
Previously, there were only 10 Chinese scientists elected as foreign members of EMBO: Professor Yang Huanming selected in 2006, Professor Li Jiayang and Professor Shi Yigong selected in 2013, Researcher Wang Xiaodong selected in 2014, Researcher Shaofeng and Professor Cao Xuetao selected in 2015, Researcher Gao Fu and Professor Wu Hong selected in 2016, Professor Pei Duanqing selected in 2018, and Researcher Kang Le selected in 2022.
The Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, also known as the Shenzhen Provincial Laboratory of Life Information and Biomedical Sciences, is one of the second batch of Guangdong Provincial Laboratories initiated by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Government with the goal of cultivating and creating a national laboratory and building a national laboratory "reserve team". This laboratory is jointly organized by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee and the Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University, in collaboration with units in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Macau with research foundations and application advantages in related fields. The permanent site of the laboratory is located in Guangming Science City, with a planned total construction area of 400000 square meters.
On March 23 this year, according to the WeChat official account of "Shenzhen Bay Laboratory", Yan Ning was recently appointed as the director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory after being approved by the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee's Talent Work Leading Group and the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Leading Group and approved by the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Construction and Development Coordination Group.
