By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, April 22, 2013, — Harvard Medical School- Chinese Scholars and Scientists Association (HMS-CSSA) has selected twelve young investigators for 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award. The two-day Symposium was held on April 13 and 14 at Harvard Medical School, and attracted about 200 participants from Harvard Medical School and 17 affiliated institutions, major US medical and research institutions across the country, and Chinese medical science research community.
Speakers and organizers pose for a picture at 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Research Symposium. (photo by David Li)
The winners of 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award are:
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Many of the award winners work at various research labs of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. They typically work long hours in order to make breakthrough discoveries in medical research.
| The award aims to promote scientific research in Chinese community in Harvard Medical School. The nominating committee was comprised of faculties of Harvard Medical School and advisory board members of HMS-CSSA. The criteria of the selection were based on the scientific merits of their research published in year 2012. Some of the winners of 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Distinguished Research Award delivered twenty-minute lecture at the 2013 Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Research Symposium, and were congratulated by symposium attendees. |
The following is the list of featured speakers at the symposium.
Dr. William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Yi Zhang, Professor, HHMI, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Dr. Xihong Lin, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Keji Zhao, Professor, Director of the Systems Biology Center at the NHLBI
Dr. Zhijian (James) Chen, Professor, HHMI, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Hongbo Luo, Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Dr. Feng Zhang, Assistant Professor, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard Medical School
Dr. Xu Liu, Research Scientist, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT
Dr. Kwok-Kin Wong, Scientific Director of Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science
Dr. Wei Zhang, Director of Commercial Strategies of HSCI
Dr. Chienwei (Eric) Liao, MGH Site Director for the Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency
Dr. Chiang Li, President and founder of Boston Biomedicals
Dr. Luke Li, Executive Director, Head of Global BioTherapeutics Technologies and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer
Dr. Yuelei Shen, Founder and CEO of Biocytogen
Dr. Samantha Du, Managing Director of Sequoia Capital China
Dr. Steve Sun, President and CEO of GENEWIZ
Dr. Keyong Zou, President, Boston Open Labs
More information about HMS-CSSA can be found at: hms-cssa.org/wp