Zihe Rao#
| Membership Number: | 5827 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.med.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1074/1157.htm |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9866-2384 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor, Tsinghua University
- 2003 - present Chairman of the Academic Board, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2012 - present Distinguished Adjunct Professor, ShanghaiTech University
- 2006 - 2011 President, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
- 2003 - 2007 Director-General, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2003 - 2007 Head, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 1992 - 1996 Senior Research Scientist with Professor David Stuart FRS, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK
- 1977 - 1979 Research Assistant, Peking Insulin Structure Research Group, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Tubercle bacillus
- Cryo-EM
- African swine virus
- Biophysics
- Hand-foot-mouth disease
- Coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2, etc.)
- Influenza virus
- Herpes virus
- X-Ray diffraction crystallography
- Human immunodeficiency virus
Honours and Awards
- Honours
- 2015 Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2014 Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Glasgow
- 2008 Honorary Doctor of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
- 2004 Member of the Third World Academy of Science
- 2003 Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Awards
- 2019 Achievement award of Zhongyuan Xiehe life Medicine Award, China
- 2015 Shulan Medical Price for life achievements, China
- 2008 Life Achievement Prize, C.C. Tan Awards, China
- 2006 Trieste Science Prize for Medical Science TWAS, Italy
- 2006 Chen Jiageng Science Prize for Life Science, China
- 2003 He-Liang-He-Li Foundation Prize, Hong Kong
- 2003 Qiushi Prize in Life Sciences, Hong Kong
- 1999 Yangtze River Distinguished Scholar, Ministry of Education, China
