Prof Henry Yang Huanming

President & Professor
Beijing Genomics Insitute (BGI)-Shenzhen, China


Email: yanghm@genomics.org.cn
Webpage link: www.genomics.org.cn

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1988, and his postdoc training in France and USA afterwards.  He returned to China in 1994 and co-founded BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute) in 1999.

As the co-founders of BGI, he and his collaborators have made a significant contribution to the HGP and HapMap projects, as well as to sequencing and analysing genomes of rice, chicken, silkworm, giant panda, cucumber, and many microorganisms. BGI published the first Asian’s genome, human pan-genome, human ancient genome, and human gut metagenoms by means of new-generation sequencing technoloty and innovative bioinformatic tools recently. BGI now has becomes one of the major genomics centers in the world.

Dr. Yang has received many awards and honors, including Research Leader of the Year by Scientific American in 2002 and Award in Biology by the Third World Academy of Sciences（TWAS）in 2006. He was elected as a foreign member of EMBO in 2006, and an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and a fellow of TWAS in 2008.