Rui-Ming Xu, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

E-mail: rmxu(AT)sun5.ibp.ac.cn

Phone: +86-10-64888797

Fax: +86-10-64888023

Education

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China B.Sc. 1984 Physics

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA M.A. 1985 Physics

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Ph.D. 1990 Physics

Positions Held

1984 - 1989 Graduate Research, Brandeis University (with L.F. Abbott & M.T. Grisaru)

1989 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (with Steven Weinberg)

1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral Associate, SUNY at Stony Brook (with Chen Ning Yang)

1993 - 1994 Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (with Xiaodong Cheng)

1994 - 1996 Staff Associate II, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (with Xiaodong Cheng)

1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

1998 - 2006 Faculty member, Genetics and Biophysics programs at Stony Brook University

2000 - 2004 Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2005 - 2006 Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2006 - 2008 Professor, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine & Department of Pharmacology,

　NYU School of Medicine (Adjunct Professor since 1/1/2009)

2009 - Principle Investigator, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS);

and Director designate, National Laboratory of Protein Science, Beijing, China

2010 - 2012 Deputy Director, Institute of Biophysics (IBP), CAS

2011 - Director, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, IBP, CAS

2012 - 2013 Director, Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, CAS

2013 - 2015 Director, Bureau of Frontier Sciences and Education, CAS

2016 - Professor, University of CAS

Awards and Honors

1984 China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application (CUSPEA) Fellow

1984 Outstanding Thesis Award, Zhejiang University

2008 National “Thousand-person Plan” Award

2009 Great Wall Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Novo Nordisk

2009 Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Natural Science Foundation of China

2012 Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Professional Services

1998 - 2004 Spokesperson, beamline X26C, National Synchrotron Light Source, BNL

1998 Mail-in grant reviewer for the NIH Biochemistry study section

1999, 2003 Mail-in grant reviewer for The Wellcome Trust, UK

2001 Mail-in reviewer for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

2001, 2003, 2004Ad hocreviewer, NIH study section BBCB

2001 - 2004 Biology Proposal Study Panel, NSLS, BNL (chair, 2003-2004)

2003 Review panel, NIH study section ZRG1 SSS-B

2007 Review panel, NIH study section ZAG1 ZIJ-5

2007 Member of assessment panel, China Fellows Program of Cancer Research UK

2008 Review panel, NIH study section ZGM1 BRT-9 (KR)

2007 - Member of Editorial Board, Genes & Development

2008 - Member of Editorial Board, Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

2008 – 2014 Vice President, Cold Spring Harbor Asia

2009 - Member of Executive Committee, Chinese Crystallographic Society

2009 - Member of Executive Committee, and Director of Molecular Biophysics Section, the Chinese Biophysical Society

2010 - Deputy editor-in-chief, Protein & Cell

2010, 2012, 2014 Co-organizer, Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting on “Epigenetics, Chromatin & Transcription”

2011 - 2014 Vice president, The Chinese Protein Society

2011 - Member of Editorial Board, BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

2013 - Vice president, the Chinese Biophysical Society

2014 Ad hoc reviewer, NSF-Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

2014 - Faculty of F1000prime in Nuclear Structure & Function

2014 - Vice president, the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2015 - Member of Editorial Board, Structure

2015 - Member of Editorial Board, Epigenetics & Chromatin

2016- Vice President, Cold Spring Harbor Asia