Zhigang Tian#
| Membership Number: | 5998 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Director & Professor, Institute of Immunology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2012 - present President, University Medical Center, USTC, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2014 - present Director, The Key Lab of Innate Immunity and Chronic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2018 - present Dean, School of Basic Medical Sciences, USTC, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2020 - present Director, Institutes of One Health, Hefei National Comprehensive Science Center, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2004 - 2015 Deputy Dean & Dean, School of Life Sciences, USTC, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 1989 - 2001 Acting Director and Director, Shandong Cancer Biotherapy Center (co-founder), Jinan, China
- 2002 - 2003 Visiting Professor, Kanazawa Univ Cancer Inst, Japan
- 2/1999 - 8/1999 Visiting Professor, Med College Virginia, Richmond, USA
- 1994 - 1996 Visiting Scientist, NCI, NIH, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Tumor immunotherapy
- Liver Immunology
- Natural killer (NK) cell biology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)(Section: Medicine)(2017)
- Council Member, International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)(total 16 members over the world)(2016-present)
- 2014 - 2019 President, Chinese Society of Immunology (CSI)
- 2020 - present Member, International Council for Science (ICS)-China Branch
- 2018 - present Member, General Committee, China Association for Science & Technology
- 2004 - present Excecutive- and Co-Editor-in-Chief, Cellular & Molecular Immunology (CMI, IF=11.5), an official journal of CSI
- 2021 Vcanbio Award for Achievement in Life Sciences and Medicine
- 2019 Prize for National Science and Technology Awards
- 2015 Science and Technology Improvement Award of THE HO LEUNG HO LEE FOUNDATION
- 2011 Prize for National Science and Technology Advancement Award
- 2008 Prize for National Science and Technology Awards
