User:Rodmas/Gao Hengjun

Dr Gao is the professor and mentor of PhD students of Gastroenterology in Tongji University and the Director of Tongji Institute of Digestive Disease (TIDD). He serves as Director of Shanghai Engineering Center of Molecular Medicine (SCMM) and the Deputy Director of National Engineering Center for Biochip (NECB) at Shanghai. In July 2011, he became head of Institute of Biobank and Translational Medicine at CMC. He was appointed Chairman of Biobank Branch of China Medicinal Biotech Association (BBCMBA) in 2009. He is also the head of Biobank and Translational Medicine Cooperative Group, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology (BTMCG, CSG). He is the editor of J Dig Dis, Chin J Dig, Chin I Gastroenterology and Int J Dig Dis.

He is responsible for National Tenth Five-Year Plan 863 Key Project on Gastrointestinal Tissue Microarray Project, Eleventh Five-Year Plan Health Ministry Project on Molecular Marker Screening and Validation on Liver Cancer Tissue Microarray, Eleventh Five-Year 863 Plan on Joint Detection of Genetic Susceptibility to Gastric Cancer and Drug Resistance to Helicobacter pylori, Eleventh Five-Year 863 Plan on Pancreatic cancer genomics, and Twelfth Five-Year Plan Health Ministry Project on Early Diagnosis of Liver Cancer & Validation and Industrialization of Molecular Marker Group for Personalized Diagnosis. He has obtained many awards and honors such as, 50 patent declarations, the state drug license (class II), Shanghai and National key New Product, 2 Class A of high-tech translational certificates of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, one first prize of Pudong District Science and Technology Progress Award and four second-class prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. Besides, he has published over 150 papers related to Biobank and biochip on GI diseases both in Chinese and English internationally renowned journals including 30 SCI papers. Over 3000 antibodies have been validated using the self-developed tissue microarrays made by Prof Gao group, and some collaborative results have been published in JCO, Hepatology, Gut, Gastroenterology, Cancer Res, Clin Cancer Res, with accumulative impact factor of near 300. He is awarded Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leadership and a leader in Shanghai Talent Training Plan. Advanced individual in the construction by awarded by National Development and Reform Commission.