个人简介

Prof. Shuguang Yuan obtained his master degree in biochemistry and structural biology from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. Following that, his doctoral dissertation was funded by the Maria Curia Fellowship. It was conducted in three different institutes in Europe: EPFL(Switzerland), Polish Academy of Science(Poland) and KULeuven University(Belgium). In his research, he investigated the principles of various biological systems including enzymes, kinases, ion channels, transporters and, in particular, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). In June 2013, he was awarded with a PhD title with the honor of distinguished thesis. Following that, he was offered the Marie Curie ETH Postdoc Fellowship. In 2014, Prof. Yuan proposed a theory about the activation mechanism and the continuous water channel of GPCRs (Nature Communications, 2014), which are widely recognized in this area. Prof. Yuan worked at Idorsia (previously known as Actelion) Pharmaceutical Ltd in Basel as a specialist in computer-aided drug design (CADD) for 5 years. In the past few years, he has advanced two of his designed molecules into clinical trials. In 2016, he was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology. In 2018, he was honored with a title of "affiliate professor" by the University of Warsaw. In 2019, Prof. Yuan was offered a full professor position by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science. He is also the director of the "Research Center for Computer-aided Drug Discovery".