Yan Ning, female, 1977 1 1 was born in Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province in June. She is a structural biologist, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the American College of Arts and Sciences, the first "International Young Scientist" of Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute, and an academician of China Academy of Medical Sciences.
Yan Ning, a female professor in Tsinghua who broke through the world problems, resigned after she was defeated as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences on 20 17. She left Tsinghua University where she worked for ten years and became a tenured professor at Princeton University. Two years later, she became a member of the American Academy of Sciences.
Yan Ning studied in the Department of Biological Science and Technology of Tsinghua University (1996) in 2000 and obtained a bachelor's degree. From 2000 to 2004, he studied in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, USA, and obtained a doctorate. From 2005 to 2007, he was engaged in postdoctoral research in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University.
From 2007 to 2065438+07, he served as professor and doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University; 2065438+On May 7th, 2007, at the invitation of Princeton University, she was hired as Shirley Tillman Lifelong Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University. On April 20 19, he was elected as a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences. In 20021April, he was elected as an academician of the American Academy of Arts.
In June 2022 1 65438+1October1,I submitted my resignation application to Princeton University, and I will return to China to participate in the establishment of Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences full-time. Yan Ning is mainly engaged in the research of important membrane transporters related to diseases, the structure and working mechanism of voltage-gated ion channels, and the molecular mechanism of membrane proteins regulating cholesterol metabolism.
social activity
On April 27th, 2023, the first Guangming Science City Forum was held in Shenzhen Guangming Yungu International Conference Center. Yan Ning, the first president of Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences and director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, delivered a keynote speech.
social service
Yan Ning has served as the vice chairman of China Association of Popular Science Writers, member of the academic steering committee of Tsinghua University High-tech Innovation Center for Structural Biology, director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory and academician of China Academy of Medical Sciences.