Chinese Biological Investigators Society
The Chinese Biological Investigators Society (Chinese: 华人生物学家协会), the former Ray Wu Society (Chinese: 吴瑞协会),[1] is a non-profit professional organization of life sciences and education[2], established since 1998. CBIS is an international platform for professional interactions, scientific collaborations, public communication, scocial environment,[3] and biology education[4] for global Chinese biologists.[3][5][6][7] CBIS holds conference biennially and emphasizes on biological discoveries of foundamental importance. The current president is Yingzi Yang.
History
Dr. Ray Wu's Contribution
CBI Society began in January 1998, formerly known as the Ray Wu Society,[8] which was established to honor Dr. Ray Wu's contributions in biochemistry and molecular biology[9][10] and efforts in establishing the Sino-America science and education programs.[11]
Awards
- Ray Wu Award: The highest honor for CBIS members who have made fundamental discoveries in life sciences and/or significant contributions in promoting life sciences.[1]
- The Young Investigator Award: The Young Investigator Award is for CBIS members who have made important contributions in their professional fields in early years of career.[12]
- Teaching Award: Teaching award recognizes a CBIS member who has contributed extraordinarily to biomedical education.
Historical conferences and presidents
- 1989, 1st conference, Boston
- 1991, 2nd conference, New York
- 1998, 3rd conference, Los Angeles, US The formation of Ray Wu Society (Junlin Guan, president)
- 2000, 4th conference, Cape Cod, US (Yang Shi, president)
- 2002, 5th conference, San Diego, US (Yang Shi, president)
- 2005, 6th conference, Boulder, US (Tian Xu, president. Ray Wu Society name changed to CBIS )
- 2007, 7th conference, Beijing, China (Yigong Shi, president)
- 2009, 8th conference, San Diego, US, (Min Li, president)
- 2011, 9th conference, Zhang Jia Jie, China (Yang Liu, president)
- 2013, 10th conference, Cancun, Mexico (Linheng Li, president)
- 2016, 11th conference, Chengdu, China (Weimin Zhong, president)
- 2018, 12th conference, Shenzhen, China (Hao Wu, president)
- 2022, 13th conference, Las Vegas, US, (Yibin Kang, president)[13]
Lists of Awarded Fellows
| Year | Awards | Name | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Ray Wu Award | Manyuan Long | The University of Chicago |
| Chuan He | The University of Chicago | ||
| Young Investigator Award | Chenqi Xu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Nan Hao | University of California San Diego | ||
| Teaching Award | Guo-Min Li | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | |
| 2018 | Ray Wu Award | Zhijian James Chen | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Xinnian Dong | Duke University | ||
| Young Investigator Award | Kun Zhang | University of California San Diego | |
| Zhihua Liu | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
| Teaching Award | Liqun Luo | Stanford University | |
| 2016 | Ray Wu Award | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie | Harvard University and BIOPIC at Peking University |
| Xiang-Dong Fu | University of California, San Diego | ||
| Young Investigator Award | Ling-ling Chen | Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Hai Qi | School of Medicine, Tsinghua University | ||
| Teaching Award | Chenjian Li | School of Life Sciences, Peking University | |
| 2013 | Ray Wu Award | Xiao-Fan Wang[14] | Duke University |
| Haifan Lin | Yale University | ||
| Young Investigator Award | Yibin Kang | Princeton University | |
| Feng Shao | National Institute of Biological Sciences | ||
| 2011 | Ray Wu Award | Kun-Liang Guan | University of California, San Diego |
| Yigong Shi | Tsinghua University | ||
| Young Investigator Award | Xinzhong Dong | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | |
| Teaching Award | Weimin Zhong | Yale University | |
| 2009 | Ray Wu Award | Yi Zhang | Harvard Medical School |
| Yang Shi | Harvard University | ||
| Young Investigator Award | X.Z. Shawn Xu | University of Michigan | |
| 2007 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Ray Wu | Cornell University |
| 2005 | Ray Wu Award | Bai Lu | National Institutes of Health |
| 2002 | Ray Wu Award | Yi Rao | Washington University |
| 2000 | Ray Wu Award | Zuo-yan Zhu | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| 1998 | Ray Wu Award | Mu-ming Poo | University of California at Berkeley |
The voice on "Racial Profiling"
In 2019, CBIS, united other science societies, including the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) and the Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network (CAHON), jointly voiced the pressing concerns on racial profiling in a letter titled Racial Profiling Harms Science[3] in Science (jornal), which later attracted a widespread formal discussions among media and jornals, including Los Angeles Times, Nature, University World News, inside higher ed, axios, wbur, the guardian, Higher Education, Science news, etc.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
External links
- https://www.cbisociety.org
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