Chuan He
Jason Smith
Jason Smith

University of Chicago

Chuan He

2024 Jury | Life Sciences 2023 2023 Science Breakthrough | Life Sciences 2023 Speaker | Breakthrough Day Life Sciences Jury Speaker Falling Walls Circle

Chuan He is the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He received his B.S. (1994) from the University of Science and Technology of China, his Ph. D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was trained as a Damon-Runyon postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2000-2002. Chuan He’s laboratory discovered reversible RNA methylation as a new mechanism of gene expression regulation at the post-transcriptional level in 2011 and at the transcriptional level in 2020. Recent studies have demonstrated critical roles of RNA methylation in mammalian development and human diseases.

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Events with Chuan He

Wed | Nov 08, 2023 | 09.00 AM - 06.00 PM Berlin Time

Else Kröner Fresenius Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences

Thu | Nov 09, 2023 | 05.00 PM - 05.15 PM Berlin Time

Chuan He: Breaking the Wall to a New Green Revolution

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