Pei Gang

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Pei Gang ( Chinese 裴 钢 ; born December 11, 1953 in Shenyang , Liaoning ) is a Chinese biochemist, university president and government adviser.

Life

Pei Gang is the son of a university professor and a doctor . He grew up in the northeast of the People's Republic of China . As a youth he was a follower of Mao Zedong and his cultural revolution . That is why he first worked as a rice farmer and later in a tool factory. After work he taught himself languages ​​by means of textbooks and studied science books. It wasn't until 1976, when Deng Xiaoping reopened the universities, that Pei decided to study pharmacy . During his student years, he joined the Chinese Communist Party .

In 1981 he graduated from Shenyang Pharmacy College with a bachelor's degree, followed by a master's degree in 1984. In 1986 he went to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden as a visiting scholar and in 1987 as a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill . There he received his doctorate in biochemistry and biophysics in 1991 . He then conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University Medical Center from 1992 to 1995, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . In March 1995 he returned to China to work as a junior research group leader at the Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . The German Max Planck Society supported the project. Five years later he was promoted to director of the institute's center, which employs around 2,000 people and to which the Institute of Cell Biology belongs, the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) .

In June 2006, Pei was appointed honorary professor at Tongji University , also located in Shanghai . In August 2007 he took over the presidency of the elite university. This ultimately resulted in an additional advisory function for the government on science issues. He also continued his cell biology research at the bioscientific institutes. His research area was signal transduction and the associated search for new therapeutic options, for example against dementia .

In the presence of high-ranking German guests, Pei opened the largest German-language library in Asia on January 21, 2016 in the Chinese-German house on the campus of Tongji University. A few months later, in September 2016, at the age of 63, he retired from his offices.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lilo Berg: Professor Rastlos. The biochemist Pei Gang made it to government adviser in China. He believes his country is headed for democracy . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 261/2010 , November 8, 2010, Horizons. People. Pictures, p. 8 .
  2. ^ A b Awardee of Life Sciences Price. Pei Gang. Abstract. In: hlhl.org. The Holeung Ho Lee Foundation, accessed September 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Astonishment in the Middle Kingdom. In: gkp.de. Society of Katholischer Publiziten Deutschlands eV, accessed on September 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Cooperation with China. First approaches. In: mpg.de. Max Planck Society, accessed on September 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Sigrun Abels: Opening of the German library in the Chinese-German house. Thursday, January 21, 2016. In: tu-berlin.de. June 21, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
  6. ^ Johannes Göbel: Exchange with China: Strategic partners - friendship. In: daad.de. German Academic Exchange Service, January 27, 2016, accessed on September 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pei Gang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 裴 钢 (Chinese script)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese biochemist, university president and government advisor
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Shenyang , Liaoning