Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Programming and Reprogramming

Professor Gang Pei was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2001. He is now the chairman of the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, vice chairman of the Chinese Medicine Globalization Alliance, chief editor of Cell Research, and editorial board member of various international academic journals. He also served as a member of the fourth and fifth expert advisory groups of the national key basic research and development plan (973 Plan), the convener of the first expert group of the national major scientific research plan of "stem cell research," and a member of the expert group of the national major infrastructure platform construction. He has long been engaged in cell signal transduction research and has published more than 100 research papers in international academic journals. He won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1996, the "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" of Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation in 1997, the Heliang Heli Science and Technology Progress Award in 1999, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2002, the first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2006, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2007, the Chen Jiageng Life Science Award in 2010, and the Tan Jiazhen Life Science Achievement Award in 2011.

• 1. Project Overview.- 2. Domestic and Foreign Research.- 3. Major Research Achievements.- 4.Outlook.