Pei Gang ( zh, 裴钢, born 1953) is a Chinese molecular biologist and pharmacologist, and a former president of Tongji University.

Early life

Pei was born in

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

in 1953.

Education

In 1977, Pei attended

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (; SPU) is a university in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. It is the first research institute in pharmaceutical sciences in China. History Shenyang Pharmaceutical University has traditions that have brought it to ...

. He acquired his bachelor's degree and master's degree in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Pei enrolled at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for doctoral studies, and received his PhD degree in 1991.

Career

After returning to China in 1995, Pei worked in the

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences are a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai, established on July 3, 1999. When it was created, it was one of four basic science research institutions of China. The organi ...

. He was the director of

Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences are a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People ...

from 2000 to 2007, and the president of Tongji University from 2007 to 2016. Pei was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. He is also the president of Chinese Society for Cell Biology. Pei's research focuses on GPCR signal transduction pathways. His research group discovered new mechanisms of

β-arrestin Arrestins (abbreviated Arr) are a small family of proteins important for regulating signal transduction at G protein-coupled receptors. Arrestins were first discovered as a part of a conserved two-step mechanism for regulating the activity of ...

proteins in cellular signal transduction.

Awards

HLHL The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (HLHL, ) is a Hong Kong-based non-government organisation which annually bestows prizes upon Chinese scientists. It was established on 30 March 1994, with funds donated from the charitable foundations of Ho Sin Han ...

Science and Technology Progress Award (1999) * National Award for Science and Technology Progress, 2nd Class (2002, 2007)

References

External links

Pei's page at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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