Neuroimmune/Inflammatory Abnormalities and Parkinson's Disease

TopicNeuroimmune/Inflammatory Abnormalities and Parkinson's Disease

Time1530 PM, July. 2th  (Tuesday)

LocationConference Room 317, Building 1, South Campus

PresenterDr. WELDON LEEUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China

 

Biography

WELDON LEE, PhD

WELDON LEE is a specially appointed national expert, professor of Neurology. He is currently the director of the Neuro-Psychiatric Research Center of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, the vice-president of the Medical College of China University of Electronics, the specially appointed professor of Dalian Medical University, and the director of Liaoning Key Discipline/Key Laboratory of Neurology. He has been engaged in neurology research for 24 years at Baylor Medical College in the United States. He is Professor of Neurology at Baylor Medical College in Houston, director of Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Baylor Medical College, director of Digital Medical Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University, director of Neurology Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College and executive director of Biomedical Research Institute of Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. In the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, biological markers and targeted treatment of Parkinson's disease, protein degradation and neurodegenerative diseases, more than 250 SCI papers have been published in some important international academic journals, such as Nature Genetics, Science, PNAS, Autophagy, Brain, JAMA and Annals of Neurology. More than 980 points were cited more than 10,000 times. Editor-in-chief of 10 monographs. In the United States, 23 international research grants were obtained, including three NIH RO-1 research grants. In China, he hosted two national natural key projects and five surface projects, and participated in four 973/863 projects. He was awarded the second prize for scientific progress by the State Education Commission in 1989, the second prize for Chinese medical science and technology in 2008, and the academic achievement prize for outstanding neurologists in 2017. The first prize for scientific and technological progress in Liaoning Province in 2017. NIH, VA, INSERM, Foundation of the Singapore Academy of Sciences, Foundation Committee of China and Key Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Jazzing, Yangtze River and 1000-person appraisal experts, served as the editorial board of 10 international magazines including Autophagy and Alzheimer & Dementia. For five consecutive years, Elsevier has been selected as the "highly cited" list of Chinese scholars in the field of neuroscience.