1990, PhD, Cornell University; postdoctoral training, Rockefeller University. Neuroscientist studying brain development and cognitive functions, and related brain diseases. Pioneering research has led to the discovery that the brain growth factor BDNF plays a key role in nerve cell communication and plasticity, and identified a critical genetic variant in the BDNF gene that affects memory and cognitive functions in human. Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University. Formerly: Executive Dean, Tsinghua University Medical School; Vice-President, R&D, GlaxoSmithKline; Chief, Neural Development and Plasticity Section, US National Institute of Health (NIH); Associate Director, trans-NIH translational medicine programme. Has also devoted efforts to science communication. Co-Founder, The-Intellectuals, an internet media company that is the most influential science media in China. Recipient of awards and honours, including: Ray Wu Award; Mathilde Solowey Award; one of World’s Highly Cited Researchers, Thomson Reuters (2014; the only one in the neuroscience category named in China); Thousand Talent Plan Scholar, China’s award for oversea returnees.