Dr. Gong Cheng

Gong Cheng received his Ph.D. in microbiology from Fudan University in 2008, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Yale University. He joined Tsinghua University in 2011 and is currently a tenured professor as well as a doctoral supervisor. He also serves as the Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee. He has won the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the “Young Yangtze River Scholar” of the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Natural Science of Beijing Science and Technology Award, the Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, the C. C. Tan Life Science Innovation Award, VCANBIO Award for Innovations and Breakthroughs in Life Sciences and Medicine, the SHUSEN LANJUAN Medical Youth Award and so on. He has long been engaged in research on the pathogenesis of arboviral infectious diseases and vaccine research and development. He has published more than 40 research papers in prestigious international journals.