Chinese Biological Investigators Society

Chinese biological inverstigator society

The Chinese Biological Investigators Society (Chinese: 华人生物学家协会), the former Ray Wu Society (Chinese: 吴瑞协会),[1] is a non-profit professional organization of life sciences and education,[2] established since 1987. CBIS is an international platform for professional interactions, scientific collaborations, public communication, scocial environment,[3] and biology education[4] for global Chinese biologists.[3][5][6][7] CBIS holds conference biennially and emphasizes on biological discoveries of foundamental importance. The current president is Yingzi Yang.

History

Dr. Ray Wu's Contribution

CBI Society began in January 1998, formerly known as the Ray Wu Society,[8] which was established to honor Dr. Ray Wu's contributions in biochemistry and molecular biology[9][10] and efforts in establishing the Sino-America science and education programs.[11] Ray Wu created the first DNA sequencing method which is still used.[9] His foundation of Sino-America science and education program helped more 400 students in biology. Many of these students become young scientists.[12]

Awards

  • Ray Wu Award (also the "RW Society Award" before 2003): The highest honor for CBIS members who have made fundamental discoveries in life sciences and/or significant contributions in promoting life sciences.[1]
  • The Young Investigator Award: The Young Investigator Award is for CBIS members who have made important contributions in their professional fields in early years of career.[13]
  • Teaching Award: Teaching award recognizes a CBIS member who has contributed extraordinarily to biomedical education.

Historical conferences and presidents

  • 1987, 1st conference, New York City
  • 1989, 2nd conference, Boston
  • 1991, 3rd conference, New York
  • 1998, 4th conference, Los Angeles, US The formation of Ray Wu Society (Junlin Guan, president)
  • 2000, 5th conference, Cape Cod, US (Yang Shi, president)
  • 2002, 6th conference, San Diego, US (Yang Shi, president)
  • 2005, 7th conference, Boulder, US (Tian Xu, president. Ray Wu Society name changed to CBIS )
  • 2007, 8th conference, Beijing, China (Yigong Shi, president)
  • 2009, 9th conference, San Diego, US, (Min Li, president)
  • 2011, 10th conference, Zhang Jia Jie, China (Yang Liu, president)
  • 2013, 11th conference, Cancun, Mexico (Linheng Li, president)
  • 2016, 12th conference, Chengdu, China (Weimin Zhong, president)
  • 2018, 13th conference, Shenzhen, China (Hao Wu, president)
  • 2022, 14th conference, Las Vegas, US (Yibin Kang, president)[14]
  • 2024, 14th conference, Guiyang, GuiZhou, China (Lee Zou, president)

Lists of Awarded Fellows

Year Awards Name University
2024 Ray Wu Award Bing Ren University of California, San Diego
Junyin Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Young Investigator Award Qing Zhang University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Wei Xie Tsinghua University
Teaching Award Xin-Hua Feng Zhejiang University
2022 Ray Wu Award Manyuan Long The University of Chicago
Chuan He The University of Chicago
Young Investigator Award Chenqi Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nan Hao University of California San Diego
Teaching Award Guo-Min Li University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2018 Ray Wu Award Zhijian James Chen UT Southwestern Medical Center
Xinnian Dong Duke University
Young Investigator Award Kun Zhang University of California San Diego
Zhihua Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Teaching Award Liqun Luo Stanford University
2016 Ray Wu Award Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Harvard University and BIOPIC at Peking University
Xiang-Dong Fu University of California, San Diego
Young Investigator Award Ling-ling Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hai Qi School of Medicine, Tsinghua University
Teaching Award Chenjian Li School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2013 Ray Wu Award Xiao-Fan Wang[15] Duke University
Haifan Lin Yale University
Young Investigator Award Yibin Kang Princeton University
Feng Shao National Institute of Biological Sciences
2011 Ray Wu Award Kun-Liang Guan University of California, San Diego
Yigong Shi Tsinghua University
Young Investigator Award Xinzhong Dong Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Teaching Award Weimin Zhong Yale University
2009 Ray Wu Award Yi Zhang Harvard Medical School
Yang Shi Harvard University
Young Investigator Award X.Z. Shawn Xu University of Michigan
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Ray Wu Cornell University
Ray Wu Award Bai Lu National Institutes of Health
2005 RW Society Award Yi Rao Washington University
2002 RW Society Award Mu-ming Poo University of California at Berkeley
2000 RW Society Award Zuo-yan Zhu National Natural Science Foundation of China

The voice on "Racial Profiling"

In 2019, CBIS, united other science societies, including the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) and the Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network (CAHON), jointly voiced the pressing concerns on racial profiling in a letter titled Racial Profiling Harms Science[3] in Science (journal), which later attracted a widespread formal discussions among media and journals, including Los Angeles Times, Nature, University World News, inside higher ed, axios, wbur, the guardian, Higher Education, Science news, etc.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

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