Patrick Yizhi Cai#
| Membership Number: | 7176 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cailab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1663-2865 |
| X: | @caiyizhi |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/caiyizhi/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Aug 2017 - present Chair Professor of Synthetic Genomics, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK
- Mar 2017 - Jul, 2017 Reader, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Jul 2013 - Jul, 2017 Chancellor’s Fellow and Principal Investigator, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Jun 2010 - Jun 2013 Postdoc Research Fellow with Autodesk Distinguished Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Non-coding RNAs
- Synthetic genomics
- Genome engineering
- Synthetic biology
Honours and Awards
- Distinguished visiting professorships from MIT (USA), LMB Cambridge & Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK), Hong Kong University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- ERC consolidator award
- EPSRC Open Plus Fellowship
- Wellcome Trust Frontier Innovator
- ICG11 Raising Star in Science - Autodesk Distinguished Scholarship
- 2023 KAUST Dean’s Distinguished Lecture
- DeLill Nasser Award for Progressional Development, The Genetic Society of America
