Topic: Factors that Determine the Outcomes of Septic Mice

Speaker: Academician Jiahuai Han

Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Venue: TD505

Language: Chinese About the

Speaker: Dr. Jiahuai Han, an Elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology (Xiamen University), Director of the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine of Xiamen University, China. Dr. Jiahuai Han got his B.S. degree in Biochemistry in Beijing University (Peking University) in 1982, M.S. degree in Protein Chemistry in Beijing University (Peking University) in 1985 and Ph.D. degree in University of Brussels (University Libre de Bruxelles) in Molecular Biology in 1990. Dr. Jiahuai Han is known for the discovery of the p38 signaling pathway, one of the most important pathways in intracellular signaling transduction. This pathway plays important roles in host defense, inflammation and stress responses. Till now, Dr. Han has published 318 papers in major academic journals including a number of publications in the most prestigious journals such as Science, Nature, Cell with an H-Index of 114(Google Scholar) and a total citation of 52,000. He was awarded the 6th Achievement Award of C.C. Tan Life Science, and the National Natural Science Award of China (Second Prize) for his outstanding contributions to signal transduction research.