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Chinese Scientist Elected NAS Academician

May 07, 2009

Dr. Mu-ming Poo, a Chinese-born American scientist serving as director of the Institute of Neurosciences under the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was elected as new member of American National Academy of Sciences on April 28, 2009.

Ever since 1980's, Dr. Poo has been dedicated to contribute to the reform of China's research and development system. He took part in founding the Department of Bioscience at Tsinghua University from 1983 to 1986 and Hongkong University of Science and Technology from 1988 to 1991. He has also served as the founding director of the Institute of Neuroscience, CAS and the head of the Laboratory of Neural Plasticity since 1999.

Three more scientist of Chinese origin were also elected member of National Academy of Sciences along Dr. Poo. They are Zhang Shengrong from Princeton University, Wang Yongxiong from Stanford University and Xie Yu from the Michigan University.

The election was held during the business session of the 146th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. It altogether elected 72 new members and 18 foreign associates for the year 2009. Those elected brought the total number of active members to 2,150.

CAS vice-president Chen Zhu, academician Zhang Qifa, and Li Aizhen from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), CAS were also NAS academicians.

For more information of Dr. Mu-ming Poo, please visit his homepage: http://www.ion.ac.cn/laboratories/poomuming/poomuming.htm 

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