Friday, October 17, 2008

Kun-Liang Guan

Kun-Liang Guan , is an biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.

Career



In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang , China. In 1982, Guan graduated from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou University . He did his postgraduate study at Purdue University . In 1991, Guan joined the University of Michigan , and became a lecturer in the Department of Biological Chemistry. 1996-2000, he was an associate professor at UM. In 2000 Guan became a professor at UM.

In 1998, Kun-Liang Guan was rewarded a MacArthur Fellowship, with a grant of $230,000 over five years. Before this, he won the Schering-Plough Award, by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology .

Guan currently is a professor of the Pharmacology Cancer Biology Program at University of California, San Diego . Guan's research mainly focuses on cancer biology and the intracellular signal transduction in cell growth regulation . Guan and his team have published some influential papers in '''', '''', '''', etc.

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