Assistant Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

Tianan Guo

Tiannan Gua received training of clinical medicine in Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (1999-2006), and biology in Wuhan University (2001-2005), before he moved to Singapore for PhD training in cancer proteomics in the laboratories of Dr. Newman Sze in Nanyang Technological University and Dr.Oi Lian Kon in National Cancer Centre Singapore (2008-2012). In 2012, Tiannan started his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Ruedi Aebersold in ETH Zurich. In March 2017, Tiannan relocated to ProCan, Children’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Sydney as the Scientific Director. Since August 2017, he became a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. The Guo lab (www.guomics.com) focuses on advancing proteomics technologies for clinical cohort studies.

Perdita Barran

Molecular Biologist, San Francisco, United States

Nevan Krogan

Nevan Krogan, PhD, is a molecular biologist, UC San Francisco professor, and director of the intensely interdisciplinary Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) under the UCSF School of Pharmacy. He is also a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes. He led the work to create the SARS-CoV-2 interactome and assembled the QBI Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG), which includes hundreds of scientists from around the world. His research focuses on developing and using unbiased, quantitative systems approaches to study a wide variety of diseases with the ultimate goal of developing new therapeutics. Nevan serves as Director of The HARC Center, an NIH-funded collaborative group that focuses on the structural characterization of HIV-human protein complexes. Dr. Krogan is also the co-Director of three Cell Mapping initiatives, the Cancer Cell Mapping Initiative (CCMI), the Host Pathogen Map Initiative (HPMI) and the Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative (PCMI). These initiatives map the gene and protein networks in healthy and diseased cells with these maps being used to better understand disease and provide novel therapies to fight them. He has authored over 250 papers in the fields of genetics and molecular biology and has given over 250 lectures and seminars around the world. He is a Searle Scholar, a Keck Distinguished Scholar and was recently awarded the Roddenberry Prize for Biomedical Research.