Our congratulations to Ludwig Oxford’s Yang Shi and Director Xin Lu, who we learned in December were elected to two prestigious scholarly academies in China as international or foreign academics. Xin was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), while Yang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). CAS and CAE are China’s two highest national institutions for science, technology and engineering. CAS focuses on basic and strategic scientific research, spanning the fields of life science, physics, chemistry, mathematics and information technology. The CAE, meanwhile, concentrates on the applied sciences and encompasses medicine, energy, transport, materials, and agriculture. Xin was recognized for her contributions to our understanding of tumor suppression, most notably through the discovery of the ASPP family of proteins as key regulators of the tumor suppressor p53, the most frequently mutated gene in human cancers. Yang was recognized for his discovery of the first histone demethylase, LSD1—and subsequently many other such enzymes—which overturned the long-held dogma that histone methylation is static and irreversible. A total of 51 foreign scholars were elected to the Academies this year.
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