Eric Xu, China

Professor, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Dr. H. Eric Xu is a prestigious structural biologist and the founding director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 270 papers which have been cited over 32,000 times, including sixteen in Nature and nine in Science. Two papers on plant hormone signaling were selected as one of the top ten breakthroughs by Science (2009) and by Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014). His X-ray laser structure of the first GPCR-arrestin complex was also selected as a top 10 breakthrough by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 and was granted by the 2016 Hans Neurath Award of Protein Society and the 2016 Wuxi outstanding achievement award. He also has been awarded the Shanghai “Magnolia Memorial Award” and the 13th “C.C. Tan Life Science Achievement Award” in 2020 and 2021, respectively. In 2022, he won the 22th “Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen & Pharmaceutical Award” and the first prize of the ninth “Overseas Chinese Contribution Award”. He also has been awarded the Shanghai “Magnolia Gold Award” in 2022.

Lecture：

Hormone- and antibody-mediated activation of the thyrotropin receptor