Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

XINHUA Online (China View)


Revision History:

Biography Revised: 2/16/2012
Career Data Updated: 2/16/2012

PHOTO: Li Jiayang
Li Jiayang 李家洋
Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Botanical Molecular Geneticist

Biography Highlight

Li Jiayang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Feixi County, Anhui Province. He was born in 1956, and graduated from Anhui Agricultural University in 1982 with a Bachelor Degree then from Brandeis University of the USA with a Doctorate Degree in 1991.

Recent Career Data

2011— Fellow, American National Academy of Science
2004— Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences CPC, Leading Party Group
2004— Vice-President, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1999—2004 Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
1994—1999 Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Genetics Research Institute
1991 Graduate, Brandeis University USA, Massachusetts, Waltham (Received Doctorate)
1991—1994 Postdoctoral Student, Cornell University, Boyce Thompson Botany Institute USA, New York, Ithaca
1982—1984 Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Genetics Research Institute
1978—1982 Student, Anhui Agricultural College Anhui Province