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Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Yang Xiongli, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Shanghai. He graduated from Shanghai Science and Technology University in 1963 and received his doctorate from the Japan State Physiology Research Institute in 1982.
Yang Xiongli applied the micro-electric pole in-cell record, dyeing technology, and combined with pharmacology and a computer he researched the adjustment and control of information transfers on the retina at several levels. He made a new discovery of light receptor signals received on horizontal cells. With their correlation, he modified traditional viewpoints and was the first to report that cooperators electric coupling between sight poles and sight cones were reinforced because of background light. This was listed as of the outstanding results of retina research in the 1980s. Yang was also the first to discover that sight cone signal was prohibited in secret and he analyzed participation mechanisms of cells and some nerve media.
Yang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Career Data
| 1991— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 1982 | Graduate, Japan State Physiology Research Institute Japan, Tokyo (Received Doctorate) | |
| 1963 | Graduate, Shanghai Science and Technology University, Biology Department Shanghai Municipality |
