Keynote talk title: Clinical functional proteomics applied to pancreatic cancer
Dr. Ruijun Tian is a tenured professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He serves as the associate dean of the Guangming Advanced Research Institute of SUSTech, director of the Research Center for Chemical Biology and Omics Analysis. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 2008, Dr. Tian obtained his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He performed postdoctoral training at the Institute for Systems Biology in Ottawa and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital in Canada. In 2014, he was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at SUSTech and was promoted to a tenured Full Professor in 2020. His research focuses on spatial proteomics and chemical proteomics related method development, as well as their applications in biomedical fields such as intercellular signaling and tumor microenvironment. He has published over a hundred papers in internationally renowned academic journals, including Nature, Nat. Chem. Biol., Cell Chem. Biol., Nat. Commun., PNAS, Mol. Cell. Proteomics, Anal. Chem. Dr. Tian serves as an editorial board member for Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, and guest editor for Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
