George Fu Gao
George Fu Gao
Dr. George Fu Gao obtained his Ph.D (DPhil) degree in 1995 from Oxford University, UK. After serving as a research lecturer at the Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, he was selected in the Chinese Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talents" program in 2004, and got National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Distinguished Young Scholar title in 2005. He was the director-general of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), since 2004-2008. Currently, he serves as a deputy director-general of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the vice-president of Beijing Institutes of Life Science, CAS, and the director of CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology. He is also a steering committee member of International Consortium of Anti-Virals (ICAV), and visiting professor in Oxford University, UK. His research is focusing on mechanisms of interspecies transmission (“host jump”) of pathogens, especially interaction between the enveloped viruses and host, and molecular immune recognition. He has published more than 280 refereed papers. He was elected as the CAS member in 2013. Honors received (selected): TWAS prizes in Medical Sciences (2012), SEBM Distinguished Scientist Award (2013), Nikkei Asia Prize (2014).