President, Fudan University
Dr. Li Jin, President of Fudan University and Dean of Shanghai Medical College, Director of Human Phenome Institute. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Science and an external member of Max-Planck Society. Dr. JIN’s main research areas encompass genetic structure and migrations of human populations, genetics of human complex diseases and computational biology. To date, he has published more than 900 papers in international academic journals including Nature, Science, Cell, NEJM, JAMA etc. and his papers have been cited 50,000 times.
He served as a board member of HUGO, co-founded Genographic Project, Pan-Asian SNP Consortium, and International Human Phenome Consortium (IHPC). He also co-founded National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai International Human Phenome Institute.
Dr. Jin has served as editor-in-chief and editorial board member of more than 10 international journals, including Phenomics. He has chaired three national councils including Frontier Biotechnology in the National High-tech R&D Program, National Precision Medicine Research Program, and National Biotechnology and Information Technology Convergence Program.