Yang Huanming

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Dr. Yang Huanming, also known as Dr. Henry Yang, is a professor and the director of the Beijing Genomics Institute, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. Yang has a Ph.D from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and did his post-doctoral training in Europe (at CIML, INSERM/CNRS, Marseille, France, 1988–90) and the United States (at Harvard Medical School and UCLA, 1990–94).

Yang is involved with the mapping and cloning of human genes, the sequencing and analysis of the human genome, human genome diversity and evolution, and the ethical, legal, and social issues related to genome research. The work of Yang and his collaborators at the Beijing Genomics Institute on the rice genome made the cover of the April 5, 2002 issue of Science magazine. Yang led a 2000 UNESCO sponsored symposium held in Hangzhou on research ethics that focused on some questionable research projects by foreign researchers in Anhui Province and on strengthening the protection of human research subjects in China.

As coordinator-in-China of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, Yang is one of the main players in China's effort in human genome sequencing. Yang is also Coordinator-in-China of the International HapMap Consortium, Chief Coordinator of the Chinese Hybrid Rice Genome Consortium. Yang is Secretary-General of the Chinese Human Genome Project (CHGP), Secretary-General of the Human Genome Diversity Committee, and Secretary-General of the Committee of Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI), CHGP. He is a member of the Expert Panel of the National Office for Administration on Genetic Materials, and the Expert Committee of Field of Life Sciences, National Programs on High-tech (“863”), China.

A native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, hometown of China's most energetic entrepreneurs, Yang leads an institute that has a dual public-private nature since it was established with the help of Wenzhou businesspeople as well as the Chinese government. Unusual for an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80% of the 500 research positions at the BGI laboratories in Beijing and Hangzhou are supported through competitive grants from both Chinese and foreign sources. Some of the work of the laboratory is supported through genetic commercial services such as paternity testing.

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