Gang Pei, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Professor Gang Pei took office as Tongji’s 25th president on August 16, 2007. Previously, he had served as president of Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences since May 2000.

Professor Pei received his B.Sc. degree in Pharmacy from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China in 1982 and his master's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the same institution in 1984. He obtained his Ph. D in Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1991 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US.

Professor Pei then undertook his post-doctoral training in Cell Biology and Signal Transduction at Duke University in the US until he was recruited as a Research Group Leader at Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, cosponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the German Max-Planck Society in 1995.

Professor Pei was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2001. In 2006, he was elected deputy director of the Life Sciences and Medicine Division in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also took on additional responsibilities as the editor-in-chief of Cell Research since Jan 2006.

Professor Pei is the chief scientist in the National 973 Project and leads the National Key Scientific Research Program “Developmental Biology and Reproduction”. He also serves as deputy director of the Academic Degrees Committee in the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, chairman of the Asian-Pacific Organization for Cell Biology, and vice chairman of the Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine.

Professor Pei’s research mainly focuses on signal transduction of G-protein coupled receptors and its regulation mechanism. He has published more than 100 research papers in the leading international journals including Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology and PNAS. Professor Pei has been invited to speak at many international conferences and symposia and received many academic honors.