Biography

Professor Shi-Shan Yu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Full Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medicial Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (IMM, CAMS & PUMC).He received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1993 from Peking Union Medical College. After the postdoctoral research at the University of Vienna, Austria (1995-1996), he joined the IMM, CAMS & PUMC as an Associate Professor in 1995 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1998. He was the Deputy Director of IMM, CAMS & PUMC (2011-2023), and has been the Chairman of the State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines since 2011. He is the Chairman of Chinese Herbal Medicine and Natural Drug Specialized Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association (CPA), and the Chief Editor of Journal of Asian Natural Products Research. His main research interests focus on the discovery, structures and functions of bioactive substances from natural medicines, and the development of innovative drugs based on natural products, and his perseverance in scientific research has led to a series of achievements. He has published 180 research papers in peer-reviewed/reputed international SCI journals such as Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Signal Transduct. Target. Ther., Adv. Sci., etc., 27 licensed patents and three monographs. His research achievements won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award one time, the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award two times, and he is also the winner of The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation for Science and Technology Progress Prize.