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Qiming Sun
Medical School
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang
Language: Chinese, English
Organelle
Homeostasis
Molecular
Neurodegeneration
Immune Deficiency
Metabolic Disorders
Autophagy
Barkor
Pacer
Er Autophagy
Areas of Focus
- Molecular basis of organelle homeostasis
- Relationship between organelle instability and neurodegeneration, immune deficiency, and metabolic disorders
Work Experience
- 07/2022-present: Professor, Senior PI, Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University International Health Institute
- 01/2021-present: Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University
- 01/2020-present: Professor, PI, Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine
- 01/2014-12/2019: Distinguished Researcher, PI, Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine
- 08/2010-12/2013: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School
- 01/2007-07/2010: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2001-2005: Ph.D. from Nanjing University
- 1998-2001: Master's from Nanjing Agricultural University
- 1993-1997: Bachelor's from Yangzhou University
- Identified and named Barkor (mammalian Atg14L/Atg14)
- Discovered and named Pacer
- Revealed the regulatory mechanism of ER autophagy
Awards
- National Outstanding Youth Science Fund
- Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chief PI)
- Major R&D Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology for Protein Machines
- General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund
