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Biography

Yufang Shi is a Professor and the Director of the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He is also a University Professor of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He received a veterinary degree from Shandong Agricultural University, China. His M.Sc. in immunoparasitology and Ph.D. in Immunology were from University of Alberta. His postdoctoral training was at the University of Toronto. From 1995 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Holland Laboratory of American Red Cross and George Washington University. He move to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2001 and was promoted to a Full Professor with a University Professor title in 2003. Since 1988, Dr. Shi has been studying apoptosis, especially in T cells. He published more than 130 papers on activation-induced cell death (AICD), role of c-myc in apoptosis, T cell immunobiology, and mesenchymal stem cell immunology in Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, Cell Stem Cell, Immunity, J. Exp. Med and other journals. Dr. Shi is a Receiving Editor of Oncogene and an Editor of Cell Death and Diseases. He was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Immunology, an Editor of Cell Research and is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, and American Journal of Translational Research.

Research Interest

Mesenchymal stem cells, Tumor stroma and tumor immunology, Molecular mechanisms of activation-induced cell death in T cell subpopulations