Yang Huanming
Chinese biologist
Yang Huanming (Chinese: 杨焕明; born 6 October 1952) is a Chinese biologist, businessman and one of China's leading genetics researchers. He is Chairman and co-founder of the Beijing Genomics Institute, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.2
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Born Oct 6, 1952.1
About
He was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, a foreign academician of Indian National Science Academy in 2009, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 2014.
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Companies
- BGI GenomicsFounder12
- BGI GenomicsBoard member Jan 1, 2003 to Jan 1, 200812
Early life and education
Yang was born on 6 October 1952, near Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. He received his B.Sc. from Hangzhou University (now part of Zhejiang University) in 1978, followed by a master's degree in biology in 1982 from the Nanjing Railroad Medical Institute (now Southeast University). Yang earned his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Institute of Medical Genetics of University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He then completed his post-doctoral training in Europe (at CIML, INSERM/CNRS, Marseille, France, 1988–90) and the United States (at Harvard Medical School and UCLA, 1990–94).
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Career
Occupation: geneticist.7
- 2003 to 2008Director, BGI Genomics4 5
- Date not recordedFounded BGI Genomics6
Personal life
Awards
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- 1WikidataYang Huanming on Wikidata
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- 12WikidataBGI Genomics, Founder
- 13Wikimedia CommonsYang Huanming photo by David Cowhig, CC BY-SA 3.0