Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

Dr. Hui Lv currently serves as the Head of the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in the School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, co-director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Yale University Biostatistics Center, and acting director of Shanghai Center for Pediatric Precision Medicine. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Peking University and his PhD from the University of Illinois. After graduation, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and received tenure. He has trained and graduated more than 20 doctors. Dr. Lu currently holds an adjunct appointment at Yale School of Public Health in the Department of Biostatistics.

Dr. Wang's research primarily focuses on biostatistics, high-dimensional data statistics, and statistical machine learning, with a particular emphasis on the statistical foundations and analysis methods related to biomedical big data. His research contributions are published in prestigious international journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, and Genome Biology. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and has been honored with the Rising Star Award by the Shanghai Society of Bioinformatics. In 2022, he was awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Wang currently holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health.

Dr. Yu's research interests include statistical and AI methods in health science. He has developed deep survival methodologies for disease risk prediction based on medical and pathological images. His current research focus on competing risk and other survival models incorporating image using deep neural network. He collaborates with medical investigators in the areas of liver, kidney diseases, cancer, and early childhood development.He serves as the associate editor or editorial board member of multiple journals (e.g. Statistics in Medicine, Heart Rhythm, Journal of Digestive Disease). He served as the president of the Central Indiana Chapter of American Statistical Association and currently serves as the vice-president of Clinical Statistics Chapter of World Congress of Chinese Medicine. He is also directing the Clinical Research Institute and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Dr. Dahai Zhao is Professor at the SJTU School of International and Public Affairs, and Executive Director of SJTU-Yale Joint Center for Health Policy. He is also the commentator at China Global Television Network (CGTN), Dragon TV, and Shanghai TV News Channel. He was a postdoctoral research scholar at Stanford University (2010-2011), and a visiting Associate Professor at Yale University (2016-2017), and the Deputy Director of the Health Commission of Xuhui District in Shanghai (2018-2019). He was selected as the Chenguang Scholar (2010), the SMC-Chenxing Scholar (2016), and the Shuguang Scholar (2018). He chaired the National Philosophy and Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund, the Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Plan and several other academic projects. His areas of research include health policy, health economics, and public policy.

Dr. Su is the KC Wong Endowed Professor and Director, Shanghai Institute of Immunology, SJTU and Director, SJTUSM - Yale University Institute of Immune Metabolism. He received his B.S. in Cell Biology from Peking University and completed his MPH and PhD graduate studies at Yale University. He continued his postdoctoral research at the University of California. Prof. Su joined SJTU and the Shanghai Institute of Immunology in 2012. The research in his laboratory focuses on the biology of signal transduction mediated by the intracellular protein kinase network such as the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades and the mammalian target of rapamycine (mTOR) pathway in gut immune responses and in blood vessel function/development. They study the genes that encode either the serine/threonine kinases or their regulators in the kinase pathways. Prof. Su has been recognized as a Distinguished Professor of SJTU School of Medicine. Dr. Su currently holds an adjunct appointment at Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Immunobiology.

Dr. Li graduated from Nankai University with B.S. and M.S. degrees, then obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 2011 in Vincenzo Pirrotta lab at Rutgers, the state University of New Jersey, working on Polycomb mediated long-distance chromatin interactions in Drosophila. He continued his postdoc training with Dr. Richard Flavell at Yale University School of Medicine since 2012, working on regulatory RNAs and RNA epigenetic switches of the immune system. Dr. Li established his independent lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine since 2017. The lab is especially interested in the physiological functions and molecular mechanisms of RNA epigenetic modifications and related RNA binding proteins in immune cells and related immune disease with mouse disease models. Combined with the state-of-the-art technologies and international collaboration, we aim to reveal novel fucntions and mechanisms of inflammation and autoimmune disease, which will contribute to the identification of potential targets for anti-autoimmune and anti-tumor drug development.

Dr. Ginhoux graduated in Biochemistry from the University Pierre et Marie CURIE (UPMC), Paris VI, obtained a Master’s degree in Immunology from the Pasteur Institute in 2000 and his PhD in 2004 from UPMC, Paris VI. As a postdoctoral fellow, he joined the Laboratory of Miriam Merad in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), New York. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, MSSM and member of the Immunology Institute of MSSM. He joined the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR in May 2009 as a Junior Principal Investigator. He is now a Senior Principal Investigator and an EMBO Young Investigator and his laboratory is focusing on the ontogeny and differentiation of macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs) in both humans and mice. In 2015, he joined Shanghai Institute of Immunology as an adjunct professor.

Dr. Wang received her B.S. in Biotechnology from Nankai University in 2005 and pursued her graduate studies on Immunology in Osaka University. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Medical Science in 2011 and then continued as a postdoctoral fellow in Osaka University (2011~2013). In 2013, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Paul Kubes at University of Calgary as a postdoctoral fellow and was a recipient of the Banting Fellowship, the most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in Canada. Dr. Wang joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Institute of Immunology as a Principal Investigator since May, 2018. Her main research interest is to understand how various types of white blood cells recognize and respond to the presence of "danger agents" that may harm the body.

Dr. Guo is Professor, School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research-SJTU, Deputy Director of the National Tropical Diseases Research Center; Deputy Director, One Health Center, SJTU-The University of Edinburgh. He also chairs the Medical Microbiology Immunology Committee of the Chinese society of Microbiology, vice chairman of microecology branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, vice chairman of microecology and health branch of the China Medical Education Association, and vice president and secretary general of the Shanghai Society of Microbiology. His scientific research mainly focuses on science in One Health: including zoonosis such as leptospirosis and brucellosis, the safety of functional foods and drugs such as probiotics and probiotics, prevention and control of bacterial drug resistance. He has won more than 20 scientific research and education awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level, e.g. the national special prize for educational and scientific research achievements and first prize for national teaching achievements.

Professor Zhou is Vice Dean, School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research-SJTU School of Medicine; and Director, One Health Center, SJTU-The University of Edinburgh. He is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, and Chief Scientists on Parasitic Diseases at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Professor Zhou graduated with a PhD from Copenhagen University, Denmark, and has worked on parasitic disease control for over 40 years, and his professional works span the fields of ecology, population biology, and epidemiology of tropical diseases.His research interests focus on the field of climate change, control strategies, determinants and innovative modeling of disease transmission, and intervention assessment. He has led dozens of multi-institution research projects at the national and international levels, such as Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Science and Technology Major Project, projects with WHO and International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, etc. He had been Vice Director (2001-2010) and Director (2010-2023) of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention based in Shanghai.

Dr. Zhaojun Wang is Vice Dean of the School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research-SJTUSM, and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at SJTUSM, Zhiyuan Honors Teaching Faculty in SJTU, and principle investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology. Dr. Wang obtained her B.Med in medical laboratory science and M.Sc. in microbiology at Shanghai Second Medical University. She received her Ph.D. degree in immunology from SJTU. Dr. Wang pursued her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Wang is an expert in the research of infectious diseases, specifically she is interested in the regulation of innate immune responses and immunopathologic mechanisms of parasitic diseases. Dr. Wang is the course director including courses on Foundation of Diseases, Medical Microbiology and Parasitology for undergraduate and graduate students. She is also Vice Director for Faculty Development at SJTUSM.

Dr. Zhao is Professor of Psychiatry at the Shanghai Mental Health Center. Her research focus is on basic mechanisms and new clinical intervention techniques in addiction. To date, she has published almost 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA Psychiatry, World Psychiatry, Ebiomedicine, and Addiction. She has received numbers of advanced grants from prominent national and international organizations such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC-CN), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and World Health Organization (WHO). She is an Associate Editor for Addiction and General Psychiatry and holding active leadership and membership at eminent associations and advisory groups, such as International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM), Chinese Association of Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment (CADAPT) and several WHO/UNODC expert groups.