Yihai Cao#
Membership Number: | 4854 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2018 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://ki.se/en/mtc/yihai-cao-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Professor at MTC, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2001 - 2004 Associate professor (Lector) at Karolinska Institute. A 6-year Research Position at the Swedish Research Council 1998-2001 Assistant professor at Karolinska Institute
- 1996 - 1998 Senior research associate at Karolinska Institute
- 1993 - 1996 Research fellow and instructor at the Department of Surgery and Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Supervisor: Professor Judah Folkman
- 1988 - 1993 Ph.D. student at Karolinska Institutet (Ludwig Institutet Stockholm)
- 1986 - 1988 Visiting research fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Inselspital, Bern Branch, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Angiogenesis
- Drug development
- Tumor Biology
- Vascular Biology
- Metabolism
Honours and Awards
- ERC advanced research grant (ERC_Ad)
- The Dr. Axel Hirsch Prize for medicine
- NOVO Nordisk Advanced grant award
- Distinguished professor award (Karolinska Institute)
- Outstanding scientist at the Karolinska Institute assessed by international panel experts
- Honorary M.D., Copenhagen University, Denmark
- Eric Fernström Prize, Sweden
- Fulbright research fellow award (USA)
- Honorary professor, Copenhagen University, Denmark
- Guest Professor, Shinshu University, Japan
- Adjunct Professor at the Leicester University, UK
- Guest Professor, Linköping University, Sweden
- Guest Professor, Peking University, China
- Guest Professor, Shandong University
- Guest Professor, Nankai University
- Human Frontier Science Program (France) grant award
- Human Frontier Science Program fellow
- Chang Jiang Scholar, Chinese Educational Ministry, China
- Outstanding oversea young investigator, Chinese National Foundation, China
- Fellow of Thousand Talents Program, China