Education
Beijing Normal University. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Xiaodong Wang
Edit Profile王晓东, 王曉東
biochemist university professor molecular biologist
Career
This allowed the biochemical purification of a complex of Cytochrome c, Caspase-9 and the Apoptotic Protease Activating factor-1 (APAF1). These components are essential for forming a ternary complex called the apoptosome that activates Caspase-3 downstream of the intracellular or mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. He was awarded the 2006 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.
Currently he is a professor at National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing.
2007, Richard Lounsbery Award, from the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America.
Achievements
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2007, Richard Lounsbery Award, from the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America 2006, Shaw Prize, from the Shaw Foundation 2004, National Academy of Sciences, USA Award in Molecular Biology 2002, Hackerman Award, from the Welch Foundation 2001, Paul Marks Prize, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 2000, Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, from American Chemical Society.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. Chinese Academy of Sciences]
Wang is a member of United States National Academy of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Born
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Nationality
People's Republic of China
Awards
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Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry; NAS Award in Molecular Biology; Shaw Prize; Richard Lounsbery Award Shaw Prize; NAS Award in Molecular Biology; Lounsbery Award; Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
The Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004.; The Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry was established in 1934.The Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004.; The Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry was established in 1934.