Eric Xu

Dr. H. Eric Xu is a leading structural biologist. He has published more than 340 papers which have been cited over 49,000 times, including twenty two in Nature and ten in Science. Two papers on plant hormone signaling were selected as one of the top ten breakthroughs by Science (2009) and by Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014). His X-ray laser structure of the first GPCR-arrestin complex was also selected as a top 10 breakthrough by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 and was granted by the 2016 Hans Neurath Award of Protein Society and the 2016 Wuxi outstanding achievement award. He also has been awarded the Shanghai "Magnolia Memorial Award" and the 13th "C.C. Tan Life Science Achievement Award" in 2020 and 2021, respectively. In 2022, he won the 22th "Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen & Pharmaceutical Award" and the first prize of the ninth "Overseas Chinese Contribution Award". He also has been awarded the Shanghai "Magnolia Gold Award" in 2022. He received the First Prize of the 2023 Shanghai Natural Science Award. Most recently, he received the First Prize of the Ministry of Education's Natural Science Research Achievement Award for 2025.