Yang Zhen

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

Educational background&Work experience

2019-present    Shenzhen Bay Laboratory Senior Principal Investigator
2004-Present    Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School Professor, Vice President, Executive Vice President
2002-Present    Peking University Changjiang Professor of Chemistry
1998-2001        Harvard Medical School Institute Fellow
1995-1998        The Scripps Research Institute Assistant Professor
1992-1995        The Scripps Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
1989-1992        The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph.D.
1983-1986        Shenyang College of Pharmacy M.S.
1978-1982        Shenyang College of Pharmacy 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.