Dr. WeiRan Tang -- Head of the Tumor Immunotherapy Center

Member, Jury of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

Dr. Wang graduated from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, and later earned his PhD degree in Hokkaido University. He has published many academic articles in the area of immunotherapy.

Dr. Tang worked as a Chief Researcher at Genox Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and the National Center for Child Health and Development, while in Japan (1999-2005). Afterwards (2005-2011), he was a Deputy Professor in the Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology (IMB) of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. His work has been focused on: the study of auto-immunological diseases; the identification of molecular targets; establishing high throughput drug screening models, and discovering optimal applications and prospects for bioactive drugs and agents. This work won Dr. Tang Award of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2008.

Areas of Specialization: Immunotherapy in the treatment of various

tumors, screening and cloning of tumor genes, hyperthermia sepcialist