Cornell Uni. Dr. Wang Baolin delivers academic speech

On October 25, associate professor Wang Baolin from Cornell University Weill School of Medicine came to Jiangsu University for an academic visit at the invitation of professor Zhou Yajing from Institute of Life Science. At 2:00 in the afternoon, vice president Zhang Jijian hosted Dr. Wang’s academic speech in the Conference Center.

Dr. Wang talked about how Gli transcription factors interpret hedgehog signaling in development, and interpreted the academic achievements of this year’s winner of Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Currently Dr. Wang is chairing two research projects financed by American NIH. As the author or co-author, Dr. Wang has published 30 papers in such international journal as Cell, Nature, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, and Mol. Cell.