1987 Master of Genetics, Institute of Genetics, Fudan University;
65438-0994 received a doctorate in biomedical science/genetics from the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center;
1994- 1996 is engaged in postdoctoral research in medical genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He used to be an assistant professor and associate professor of human molecular genetics at the Human Genetics Center of the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center and the Graduate School of Biomedical Science (tenure), and a professor at the Genome Information Center of the Department of Environmental Health of the University of Cincinnati (tenure).
He used to be the dean of the School of Life Sciences of Fudan University, and now he is the vice president of Fudan University and the director of the Institute of Genome of the Academy of Biomedical Sciences, the director of the Max Planck Institute of the Institute of Computational Biology of China Academy of Sciences, the deputy director of the Southern Research Center of the National Human Genome, the president of the American Chinese Genetic Society, the director of the Key Laboratory of Modern Anthropology of the Ministry of Education, and the deputy director of the Morgan-Tan Jia Zhen International Life Science Research Center. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Human Genomics (UK), Human Biology (USA), Mutation Research (USA), China Journal of Medical Genetics (China), Frontier of China Biology (China) and Journal of Anthropology (Croatia).
20 1 1.4.28 served as vice president of Fudan university.
20 13 12 was elected as an academician of China academy of sciences.