Yang Zhen

Senior Principal Investigator (Director)zyang(at)pku.edu.cn

Educational background&Work experience

2019 - Present&Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Senior Principal Investigator

2016 - 2019Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School Chancellor

2010 - PresentPeking University &  Shenzhen Graduate School Chair Professor

2007 - 2010Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chair Professor

2001 - 2010Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor

1995 - 2001Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Associate Professor

1992 - 1995Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Lecturer/Assistant Professor

1988 - 1992UCLA Research Associate

1988University of Erlangen Nürnberg Visiting Scholar

1986 - 1987UCLA Postdoc Fellow

1982 - 1986University of Pittsburgh Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant

1981Lanzhou University B.S.

Research field

Carry out total synthesis research around complex natural products with important activities, committed to developing efficient and novel synthesis methodologies and applying them to the synthesis of complex natural products and small molecular compounds with biological activities, thereby providing a research foundation for subsequent biomedical research and new drug development. His main research interests include: (a) new synthesis methodologies; (b) total synthesis of natural products; and (c) chemical genomics.