HONORS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITION (since 1997)

39.   2008 Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists Award, Georgia Cancer Coalition, State of Georgia

38.   2008 Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, Georgia State University

37.   2008 CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award

36.   2008 Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University

35.   2008 President, The Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association (CAPA), 2007-present.

2009 - Present          Full Professor     Georgia State University

2004 - 2008              Associate Professor     Georgia State University

2004 - 2005              Associate Professor     Brooklyn College

1998 - 2004              Assistant Professor     Brooklyn College

1994 - 1998             Post-doc. Research Fellow [with Prof. Jack Szostak (2009 Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine)] Harvard Medical School and MGH

1988 - 1994              Ph.D Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich)

1984 - 1987              M.S Peking University, Chemistry, Beijing

1980 - 1984              B.S Sichuan University, Chemistry, Chengdu