Dr. Chuan He

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Biography

Chuan He is a John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994 and completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Following his graduation, he trained as a Damon-Runyon postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University from 2000 to 2002 before joining the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor. He achieved the rank of Associate Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2010, becoming the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in 2014. His research interests cover a broad spectrum within chemical biology, particularly focusing on RNA biology, epigenetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. His recent research has centered on reversible RNA methylation and its regulatory role in gene expression. Chuan has received multiple accolades for his work, including being named an HHMI Investigator in 2013 and receiving the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2017. He is actively involved in the Cancer Research Center at the University of Chicago.

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HHMI Investigator

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Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

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