Newsflash: Cao Xiaofeng, Cheng Yifan, Huang Yonggang, etc. were elected to the American Academy of Sciences

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On April 27, 2020 local time, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the latest list of academicians (120) and foreign academicians (26) to recognize their outstanding achievements in original research. Among them, Cao Xiaofeng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a plant epigeneticist, was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. In addition, six Chinese-American professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Howard Chang, Yifan Cheng, Yonggang Huang, Terence Hwa, Doris Y. Tsao, and Lai-Sang Young.

http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html

Xiaofeng Cao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Researcher of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, systematically studied the regulation of epigenetics on plant shape in Arabidopsis thaliana and rice.

http://sourcedb.genetics.cas.cn/yw/zjrc/pgr/200907/t20090731_2287246.html

Howard Chang, a professor at Stanford University and a Howard Hughes Medical Fellow (HHMI), is a researcher in genomics.

https://profiles.stanford.edu/howard-chang

Yifan Cheng, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a howard Hughes Medical Fellow (HHMI), is committed to the development and application of cryo-EM methods.

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/yifan.cheng

Huang Yonggang is a professor at Northwestern University, a solid mechanics scientist, and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/huang-yonggang.html

Ying Cao, a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology and a researcher at Howard Hughes Medicine (HHMI), received the 2018 U.S. Genius Award for her achievements in revealing the visual neural mechanisms of primate brains.

https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/people/doris-y-tsao

Lisheng Yang, a mathematician at New York University, works on chaotic systems and reveals the principles of vision formation through collaboration with neuroscientists.

https://math.nyu.edu/people/profiles/YOUNG_Lai-Sang.html

Hua Taili, Professor of Physics and Biology at the University of California, San Diego, theoretical biophysicist, conducts quantitative and systems biology studies using E. coli as a model organism.

https://profiles.ucsd.edu/terence.hwa