Yang Du

Prof. Yang Du obtained PhD degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, and then went to Stanford University for postdoctoral training. During this period, he was awarded a full post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the American Heart Association. He was also offered with the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His main research centers on the structure, function and drug discovery of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR). Professor Du has published nearly 80 high-quality SCI papers, including Cell, Science, Nature, Nature Comm, Science Adv, Cell Research and JACS as corresponding author. He is currently an associate professor and assistant dean in the School of MEDICINE at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and a principal investigator in the Kobilka Institute for Innovative Drug Discovery.