Nancy Ip

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Nancy Ip ( Chinese  葉玉 如  /  叶玉 如 , Pinyin Yè Yùrú ; born July 30, 1955 in Hong Kong ) is a Hong Kong neuroscientist. She is Vice President Research and Development, Morningside Professor of Life Sciences, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

biography

Nancy Ip was born in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Her ancestors are from Taishan , Guangdong . She is the youngest of six children. Nancy Ip and four of her sisters attended the renowned St. Mary's Canossian College in Hong Kong's Kowloon district . Three of her sisters became teachers after graduating from college to support the family financially. One of them was even Nancy's primary school teacher. Her interest in biology was piqued by her college biology teacher. When dissecting a cockroach, she was fascinated by the intricate system inside the body.

Nancy Ip received a full scholarship from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1977 she received her Bachelor of Arts with distinction in chemistry and biology. During her senior year she researched the synthesis of the β-lactam ring from penicillin . Ip then studied pharmacy at Harvard University Medical School, where she obtained her doctorate in 1983. During her studies she specialized in brain functions. She worked in Richard Zigmond's neurotransmission laboratory. With him she learned to create solid laboratory protocols and to be patient in achieving research goals. After completing her PhD, Ip was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City for a year and then a two-year medical engineering laboratory manager at Lifecodes Corporation . During this early part of their scientific career there were important developments in molecular biology, including the invention of the polymerase chain reaction in 1983. The following year, Ip and Zigmond broadened this field with their discovery that patterns of presynaptic nerve activity can determine the type of neurotransmitter regulating postsynaptic events. Soon after, Nancy Ip became a senior research fellow at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in New York City, where she worked on neurotrophic factors. Her mentor at the time was George Yancopoulos. With him and her colleagues, Nancy Ip demonstrated in 1992 that blood cells and neuronal cells share receptor components so that the actions of their growth factors overlap. This research confirmed that the immune system and the nervous system are interconnected.

Ip has been a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1993 . She is Dean of Science, Morningside Professor of Life Sciences, and Director of the University's State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience.

She was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an academic in 2001 .

In 2004, Ip received the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Award at the 6th Annual L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.

Awards

  • 1998 - Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship
  • 2001 - Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 and 2011 - State Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China
  • 2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
  • 2008 - Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
  • 2008 - Medal of Honor, Hong Kong SAR Government
  • 2011 - Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite, France
  • 2014 - Justice of Peace, Hong Kong SAR Government
  • 2015 - Founding Member, The Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong
  • 2016 - Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b HKUST Appoints Prof Nancy Ip as Dean of Science. In: ust.hk. Accessed November 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jennifer Viegas: Profile of Nancy Ip. In: pnas.org. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nancy Y. Ip, Richard E. Zigmond: Pattern of presynaptic nerve activity can determine the type of neurotransmitter regulating a postsynaptic event . In: Nature . tape 311 , no. 5985 , October 1984, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 472–474 , doi : 10.1038 / 311472a0 (English, nature.com [accessed November 17, 2019]).
  4. ^ Ip Lab - Molecular Neuroscience Laboratory. In: iplab.ust.hk. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nancy Y. Ip, Steven H. Nye, Teri G. Boulton, Samuel Davis, Tetsuya Taga: CNTF and LIF act on neuronal cells via shared signaling pathways that involve the IL-6 signal transducing receptor component gp130 . In: Cell . tape 69 , no. 7 June 1992, pp. 1121–1132 , doi : 10.1016 / 0092-8674 (92) 90634-O (English, elsevier.com [accessed November 17, 2019]).
  6. ↑ 李宗 陶: 携带 时尚 元素 的 女 科学家 叶玉 如 (组图). In: news.sina.com.cn. March 7, 2004, accessed November 15, 2019 (Chinese).
  7. ↑ 人民网. In: people.com.cn. September 22, 2003, Retrieved November 15, 2019 (Chinese).
  8. ↑ 许 畅: 网易 新闻 中心 - 中国 女性 梅开二度 获 “世界 杰出 女 科学家 成就 奖”. In: news.163.com. March 9, 2004, accessed November 15, 2019 (Chinese).
personal data
SURNAME Ip, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hong Kong Chinese neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong