Richard Ye

Prof. Ye graduated from Shanghai Second Medical College in 1982, and obtained his PhD degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1988. Since 1989, he started his independent research from assistant professor to full professor at The Scripps Research Institute and University of Illinois College of Medicine. His main research directions include G protein-coupled receptors and their signaling functions in innate immune cells, mechanisms of inflammation and pathological models, and anti-inflammatory drug targets. He has collaborated with Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and GSK, and obtained 2 U.S. patents and 2 Chinese patents as first inventor, and 2 other patents as co-inventor. Prof. Ye has published 230 SCI papers that have been cited for more than 20,000 times. He served as Chair Professor and Dean of School of Pharmacy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2010-2014) and Chair Professor at University of Macau (2015-2019). Prof. Ye joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in February 2019 to establish School of Life and Health Sciences. In 2020 he led the effort of establishing the CUHK(SZ) Futian Biomedical Innovation R&D Center. Prof. Ye was elected Excellent Teacher of Shenzhen in 2021, and received Outstanding Research Award of CUHK(SZ) in 2022. In recent years he has been on the lists of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018-2020, 2022), Stanford World's top 2% Scientist (2020-2023), and Elsevier’s Most Cited Chinese Researchers (2022). Among the academic services he provided are Associate Editor of The FASEB Journal, Associate Editor of Pharmacological Reviews, and Editorial Boards of Molecular Pharmacology and British Journal of Pharmacology. The Ye Lab is open for applications from interested postdoctoral fellows, PhD and master degree students, and undergraduate exchange students.