Talk title:
Genetic Switches for Precision Medicine
Speaker Name and Position and Institute:
Haifeng Ye
Vice Dean and Professor of School of Life Sciences
East China Normal University
Speaker introduction or talk content:
Dr. Haifeng Ye received his Ph.D degree and completed his Postdoctoral Research from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich). He has been awarded the “ETH Silver Medal” at ETH Zürich in 2013. He started his own group in the School of Life Sciences at East China Normal University (ECNU) in 2014 and established the Biomedical Synthetic Biology Research Center in 2019 at ECNU. In 2020, he was named the Wan Ren Scholar Distinguished Professor. His research interest has been focused on synthetic biology and biomedical engineering with the goal to achieve precise diagnosis and treatment of diseases. His research topics include optogenetics-based precision medicine, synthetic gene circuits for gene- and cell-based precision therapy, synthetic biology-based cancer therapy and precise controlled gene editing. His research work was published in the top scientific journals: Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Advances, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, etc.
Date and Time
17th Nov 2021, 15:30-16:30
Room A203-1, ZJE building
Host: Dr. Jian Liu
