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Francis Kaming Chan
Medical School
Zhejiang University
Zhejiang
Language: English, Chinese
Inflammation
Immune Regulation
Cell Death
Ripk3
Ripk1
Necroptosis
Tissue Regeneration
Signal Pathways
Inflammatory Diseases
Cell Biology
Areas of Focus
- Inflammation
- Immune Regulation
- Cell Death
Work Experience
- Professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Professor at Duke University School of Medicine
- Deputy Director of the Department of Immunology at Duke University
- 2022 - Present: Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhejiang University Second Affiliated Hospital, and Liangzhu Laboratory
- Visiting Professor at Duke University Department of Immunology
Academic Background & Achievements
- Graduated with top honors in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego
- Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley
- Postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health
- Organized Gordon Research Conference on Cell Death
- Editorial board member of Cell Death and Differentiation
- Published over 80 high-level papers, H index=54, cited over 20,000 times
- Discovered receptor-interacting protein kinase RIPK3
Awards
- Young PI Award from the American Cancer Research Institute
- Young PI Award from the Smith Family Foundation
- Senior Researcher Award from the American Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
