2022 - present Professor (with tenure) Edmund Wallace Tulloch and Anna Marie Tulloch Endowed Chair Director of Center for Coronavirus Research Department of Pharmacology University of Minnesota, MN
2022 - present Co-Director of Midwest Antiviral Drug Discovery Center Midwest academic institutions
2017 - 2022 Associate Professor (with tenure) -> Professor (with tenure) -> Endowed Professor Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences University of Minnesota, MN
2007 - 2017 Assistant Professor (tenure track) -> Associate Professor (with tenure) Department of Pharmacology University of Minnesota, MN
2003 - 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School, MA Sponsor: Dr. Stephen C. Harrison
1996 - 2002 Yale University, CT Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Advisor: Nobel Laureate Dr. Thomas A. Steitz
1991 - 1996 Beijing University, Beijing, China B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2024 Elizabeth O. King Lecturer Award - by American Society for Microbiology
2023 Twin Cities Health Care Heroes - by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
2022 Top 500 World's Most Impactful Scientists - by Stanford University
2021-2023 World's Highly Cited Researchers - by Web of Science (Clarivate)
2021 Zoetis Award for Veterinary Research Excellence - by Zoetis Inc.