DING, Kan
Title: Professor
Address: Department of Pharmacology III, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 555 Zu Chong Zhi Road, Shanghai, 201203, People’s Republic of China
Tel: +86 21 50806928
Email: dingkan@simm.ac.cn
Education Background:
1999 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996 M.S, in Pharmacognosy, China Pharmaceutical University
Working Experiences:
Professor, 2005- present
Department of Pharmacology
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Researcher Fellow, 2004-2005
Harvard Medical School, U. S. A.
Neurosciences Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Researcher Fellow associate, 2001-2003
University of California, Irvine, U.S.A., Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Post-doctoral associate, 1999-2001
Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Instructor, 1986-1993
China Pharmaceutical University (Primitive name: Jiangsu Medical School)
Research Interests:
Structure and Function of polysaccharides, Molecular targets of glycans, Mechanism underlying action of glycans, Absorption mechanism of polysaccharides, Biological functions of proteoglycans, Function of food ingredient, Function of miRNAs, Carbohydrate-based drug development
Professional Activities:
Peer review of numerous scientific journals and governmental funding agencies
Member of various scientific technical committees for U. S. A. and P. R. China agencies