Zhiqiang Yan
Professor and Dean
School of Basic Medical Sciences
Capital Medical University, China
Investigator and Director
Chinese Institute for Medical Physiology
Chinese Institutes for Medical Research,
Beijing, China
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Introduction
Dr. Zhiqiang Yan is a professor and dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Capital Medical University, as well as an investigator and director at the Institute for Medical Physiology, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing. He earned his bachelor's degree from Fudan University in 2004 and completed his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2004 to 2009. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Yan conducted his postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Academicians Yuh-Nung Jan and Lily Jan at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, San Francisco. In 2013, he became a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Fudan University. From 2020 to 2024, he served as a senior principal investigator and deputy director at the Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory. Dr. Yan studies sensory neurobiology, focuses on identifying the receptors and neural circuits for sensation and interoception, studies their working mechanism and related the diseases in sensory system. He has published numerous papers as a corresponding author in high-impact journals, including Neuron, PNAS, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports.