Cao Xuetao

Cao Xuetao (Chinese: 曹雪涛; born July 19, 1964) is a Chinese immunologist who has served as president of Nankai University since January 2018.[1]

Cao Xuetao
Born (1964-07-19) July 19, 1964
Jinan, Shandong, China
Alma materSecond Military Medical University
Scientific career
FieldsImmunology
InstitutionsNankai University
Academic advisorsYe Tianxing
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese曹雪濤
Simplified Chinese曹雪涛
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cao.

Biography

Cao was born in Jinan, Shandong, China on July 19, 1964. In September 1981 he was accepted to the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1986 and completed his post-graduate studies in immunology in 1990. After graduation, he was a lecturer and then professor (1993) at the Second Military Medical University, as one of the youngest medical professors at that time. He also served as chairman of the Department (1995-2011), Director of the Institute of Immunology (2000-2011) and Vice President of the University (2004-2011). In July 2005 he was awarded the military rank of major general (shao jiang).

He was president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences between August 2011 and November 2015. In August 2010 he became vice president of Peking Union Medical College, rising to president in November 2015. In January 2018 he was appointed president of Nankai University, a vice-ministerial level position.[2] He also served as president of the Chinese Society of Immunology (2006-2014), the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (2012-2015) and the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (2014-2015).

In January 2018 he became a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Honours and awards

Investigation

On November 13, 2019, American biologist Elisabeth Bik wrote on PubPeer that about 40 papers co-authored by Cao used unexpectedly similar images, a sign of possible manipulation, although Bik said many of these could be honest errors. So far, no results have been announced, and netizens noticed a public smear campaign on American scientists from Harvard.[5] On November 18, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced that it is investigating the claim.[5][6][7]

Personal life

Cao is married and has a son, who received his doctoral degree at Harvard and is now at Peking University.[8]

Selected papers
  • Zhang, Minghui; Tang, Hua; Guo, Zhenhong; An, Huazhang; Zhu, Xuejun; Song, Wengang; Guo, Jun; Huang, Xin; Chen, Taoyong; Wang, Jianli; Cao, Xuetao (2004). "Splenic stroma drives mature dendritic cells to differentiate into regulatory dendritic cells". Nature Immunology. 5 (11): 1124–1133. doi:10.1038/ni1130. PMID 15475957.
  • Hou, Jin; Wang, Pin; Lin, Li; Liu, Xingguang; Ma, Feng; An, Huazhang; Wang, Zhugang; Cao, Xuetao (2009). "MicroRNA-146a Feedback Inhibits RIG-I-Dependent Type I IFN Production in Macrophages by Targeting TRAF6, IRAK1, and IRAK2". Journal of Immunology. 183 (3): 2150–2158. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0900707. PMID 19596990.
  • Hou, Jin; Lin, Li; Zhou, Weiping; Wang, Zhengxin; Ding, Guoshan; Dong, Qiongzhu; Qin, Lunxiu; Wu, Xiaobing; Zheng, Yuanyuan; Yang, Yun; Tian, Wei; Zhang, Qian; Wang, Chunmei; Zhang, Qinghua; Zhuang, Shi-Mei; Zheng, Limin; Liang, Anmin; Tao, Wenzhao; Cao, Xuetao (2011). "Identification of miRNomes in Human Liver and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Reveals miR-199a/b-3p as Therapeutic Target for Hepatocellular Carcinoma". Cancer Cell. 19 (2): 232–243. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2011.01.001.
  • Wang, P.; Xue, Y.; Han, Y.; Lin, L.; Wu, C.; Xu, S.; Jiang, Z.; Xu, J.; Liu, Q.; Cao, X. (2014). "The STAT3-Binding Long Noncoding RNA lnc-DC Controls Human Dendritic Cell Differentiation". Science. 344 (6181): 310–313. doi:10.1126/science.1251456. PMID 24744378.
gollark: I mean, I would assume most people have done SOME amount of good things?
gollark: They would be controllable via a Twitter bot and local wireless.
gollark: According to the GTech™ Meanological Finite Field™, destroying statues is kind of bee, but if you could conveniently switch them out without damage it would be amazing and great.
gollark: I don't think the technology quite exists yet, but you could just make it so that the statues can change to display different people depending on public opinion.
gollark: There is a simple solution. Dynamically reprogrammable statues.

References
  1. Cao Xuetao (2019). "Entering a new century of scientific excellence". nature.com. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. 曹雪涛任南开大学校长 [Cao Xuetao is appointed president of Nankai University]. sina (in Chinese). 3 January 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  3. Gerstner, Ed (2015-12-16). "MentorshipStewards of China's future". Nature. 528 (7582): 427–428. doi:10.1038/nj7582-427a. ISSN 0028-0836.
  4. 曹雪涛当选美国国家医学科学院外籍院士，长期从事免疫学研究. thepaper (in Chinese). 17 October 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  5. Wu Yi 吴怡 (18 November 2019). 中国工程院：会针对网络反映曹雪涛院士的有关问题展开调查. The Paper (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  6. Dennis Normile (22 November 2019). "Top Chinese researcher faces questions about image manipulation". sciencemag.org. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  7. Zhuang Pinghui (19 November 2019). "Chinese university chief under investigation after research called into question". MSN. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  8. Bi Guihai (毕桂海); He Xiaolin (贺晓琳) (28 March 2001). 曹雪涛：解读“生命天书”的军人学者. sina (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 November 2019.
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