Kun-Liang Guan

Kun-Liang Guan (Chinese: 管坤良; 1963-), is an American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.

Career

In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang (Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province), China. In 1982, Guan graduated (B.S.) from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou University (previous and current Zhejiang University). He did his postgraduate study at Purdue University (Ph.D. 1989; Advisor: Prof. Henry Weiner). In 1991, Guan joined the University of Michigan (UM), and became a lecturer in the Department of Biological Chemistry. 1996-2000, he was an associate professor at UM. In 2000 Guan became a professor (Halvor Christensen Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences, 2003-2007) at UM. [http://www.ur.umich.edu/9798/Jun10_98/guan.htm]

In 1998, Kun-Liang Guan was rewarded a MacArthur Fellowship, with a grant of $230,000 over five years. Before this, he won the Schering-Plough Award, by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) [http://www.medicineatmichigan.org/magazine/1999/spring/limelight/default.asp] .

Guan currently is a professor of the Pharmacology Cancer Biology Program at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Guan's research mainly focuses on cancer biology and the intracellular signal transduction in cell growth regulation [http://cancer.ucsd.edu/summaries/kuguan.asp] . Guan and his team have published some influential papers in "Cell", "Nature", "Science", etc.

ee also

* MacArthur Award

Extra links

* [http://cancer.ucsd.edu/summaries/kuguan.asp Kun-Liang Guan's homepage at UCSD]
* [http://www.ur.umich.edu/9798/Jun10_98/guan.htm Biochemist Kun-Liang Guan named a MacArthur Fellow]
* [http://www.iog.umich.edu/faculty/guan.html Kun-Liang Guan's homepage at UM]

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