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ISM director elected into AAM


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The American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, the world’s oldest and largest life science organization, recently elected 109 new fellows. Dr. Cheng Genhong, director of Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine (ISM), is on the list.

The AAM fellows are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievements and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. This year, 109 scientists from the United States, China, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Israel and the Republic of Korea among other countries and regions were elected into the group.

In addition to heading ISM, Cheng is also a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at University of California, Los Angeles. After graduation from Wuhan University in 1984, Cheng had his PhD training in Molecular Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and his postdoctoral training in Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cheng is an expert on immune responses in host defense against infections and cancers as well as their associations with inflammatory and metabolic diseases. He has authored a long list of articles, including 140 published in top journals like Nature and Science, and has been the principal investigator in many research grants from government and private sources. Cheng has received many awards such as the Stop Cancer Award and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Stohlman Scholar Award. He was elected a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, and serves as jurors under many international peer evaluation programs.


February 12, 2019