Duanqing Pei#
| Membership Number: | 7261 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.westlake.edu.cn/faculty/duanqing-pei.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5222-014X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020.5 - present Chair Professor, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University
- 2017.11 -2020.5 Professor and Founding Director, Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory
- 2018.11-2020.6, Professor and Academic Director, Guangzhou Institutes of Bio-medicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Science
- 2008.6 - 2018-11 Professor and Director General, GIBH, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2004.7 - 2008.6 Professor and Deputy Director General, GIBH, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2004.2 - 2007.1 Honorary Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Hong Kong
- 2003.8 - 2006.7 Visiting Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai
- 2002.1 - 2004.6 Professor and Director, Institute of Pharmacology, Tsinghua University
- 1996.9-2004.9 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell fate control
- Cell biology
- Epigenetics
- Pluripotency
- Somatic cell reprogramming
- Cell differentiation
Honours and Awards
- 2018 National Natural Science Prize by the State Council of Peolpe’s Republic of China on “EMT-MET driven Cell Fate Decisions”
- 2018 Elected to EMBO as associate member
- 2017 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2013 National Natural Science Prize by the State Council of Peolpe’s Republic of China on “Stem Cell Pluripotency and Reprogramming”
