Rui-Ming Xu, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

E-mail: rmxu(AT)sun5.ibp.ac.cn

Phone: +86-10-64888797

Fax: +86-10-64888023

Education  　

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China B.Sc.                   1984             Physics

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA             M.A.             1985             Physics

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA             Ph.D.            1990             Physics

Positions Held 

1984 - 1989         Graduate Research, Brandeis University (with L.F. Abbott & M.T. Grisaru)

1989 - 1991         Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (with Steven Weinberg)

1991 - 1993         Postdoctoral Associate, SUNY at Stony Brook (with Chen Ning Yang)

1993 - 1994         Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (with Xiaodong Cheng)

1994 - 1996         Staff Associate II, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (with Xiaodong Cheng)

1996 - 2000         Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

1998 - 2006         Faculty member, Genetics and Biophysics programs at Stony Brook University

2000 - 2004         Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 

2005 - 2006         Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 

2006 - 2008         Professor, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine & Department of Pharmacology,

                     　NYU School of Medicine (Adjunct Professor since 1/1/2009)

2009 -                  Principle Investigator, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS);

                      and Director designate, National Laboratory of Protein Science, Beijing, China

2010 - 2012          Deputy Director, Institute of Biophysics (IBP), CAS

2011 -                  Director, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, IBP, CAS

2012 -   2013        Director, Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, CAS

2013 -  2015         Director, Bureau of Frontier Sciences and Education, CAS

2016 -                  Professor, University of CAS

Awards and Honors  　

1984                   China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application (CUSPEA) Fellow

1984                   Outstanding Thesis Award, Zhejiang University

2008                   National “Thousand-person Plan” Award

2009                   Great Wall Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Novo Nordisk

2009                   Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Natural Science Foundation of China

2012                   Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Professional Services 

1998 - 2004         Spokesperson, beamline X26C, National Synchrotron Light Source, BNL

1998                   Mail-in grant reviewer for the NIH Biochemistry study section

1999, 2003          Mail-in grant reviewer for The Wellcome Trust, UK

2001                   Mail-in reviewer for American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

2001, 2003, 2004  Ad hocreviewer, NIH study section BBCB

2001 - 2004         Biology Proposal Study Panel, NSLS, BNL (chair, 2003-2004)

2003                   Review panel, NIH study section ZRG1 SSS-B

2007                   Review panel, NIH study section ZAG1 ZIJ-5

2007                   Member of assessment panel, China Fellows Program of Cancer Research UK

2008                   Review panel, NIH study section ZGM1 BRT-9 (KR)

2007 -                 Member of Editorial Board, Genes & Development

2008 -                 Member of Editorial Board, Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

2008 – 2014               Vice President, Cold Spring Harbor Asia

2009 -                 Member of Executive Committee, Chinese Crystallographic Society

2009 -                 Member of Executive Committee, and Director of Molecular Biophysics Section, the Chinese Biophysical Society

2010 -                 Deputy editor-in-chief, Protein & Cell

2010, 2012, 2014       Co-organizer, Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting on “Epigenetics, Chromatin & Transcription”

2011 - 2014            Vice president, The Chinese Protein Society

2011 -                 Member of Editorial Board, BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

2013 -                 Vice president, the Chinese Biophysical Society

2014                   Ad hoc reviewer, NSF-Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

2014 -                 Faculty of F1000prime in Nuclear Structure & Function

2014 -                 Vice president, the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2015 -                 Member of Editorial Board, Structure

2015 -                 Member of Editorial Board, Epigenetics & Chromatin

2016-                  Vice President, Cold Spring Harbor Asia