Chinese structural biologist Yan Ning announced on November 1st, 2022 that she would resign Princeton University in the US and join in the establishment of Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) in the near future.
"In the near future, I will return to China full-time (assist) in establishing a new research and development institution in Shenzhen called SMART, (integrate) several functions including scientific research, transformation, education and financial support," Yan said at the Shenzhen Global Innovation Talent Forum.
While teaching at Tsinghua University in 2014, Yan Ning (lead) a team to analyze the three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter GLUT1 initially. After the achievement (publish) in Nature, it , (immediate) received widespread attention and praise from the international academic community.
Yan earned her Ph. D. at Princeton in 2004 returned in 2017 as the (one) Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology.
Yan said she wanted to support more outstanding (scholar) and tackle the various health threats facing mankind. Shenzhen offered right opportunity, and the city can build its place in the global biomedicine field, Yan said.
