Tian Zhigang

Tian Zhigang
Tian Zhigang
田志刚
Born	11 October 1956 (age 65); Ye County, Shandong, China
Alma mater	Shanxi Medical University; ; Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University
	Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	田志刚
Traditional Chinese	田志剛
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tián Zhìgāng

Tian Zhigang (born 11 October 1956) is a Chinese immunologist who is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, chairman of , and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography[]

Tian was born in Ye County (now Laizhou), Shandong, on 11 October 1956.^[1] He received his Bachelor of Medicine degree from Shanxi Medical University in 1982, Master of Immunology from Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences (now ) in 1985, and Doctor of Immunology from Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University in 1989.^[1]^[2] In 1993, he became a researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health.

He is now a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, concurrently serving as chairman of .

2008 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)^[1]
2012 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)^[1]
2015 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation^[1]
27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)^[3]
2020 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)^[1]

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^ 田志刚. ckcest.cn (in Chinese). 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^ Ding Xiao (丁晓), ed. (27 November 2017). 中国工程院产生67位新当选院士，比尔·盖茨当选外籍院士. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 September 2021.