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Biography

Ye Yuru, female, Han nationality, is a native of Taishan, Guangdong Province, and was born in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Simmons Institute in America in 1977 and received her medical doctorate from Harvard University in 1983.

Ye Yuru used modern modular and cell biological methods to discuss the relationship between nerve nutrition factors and the growth of nerve cells and the possibility of their application in treatment of nerve disease. She was the first to discover or participate in 3 new nerve nutriments of NT3, NT4 and NT7 and she conducted researched on their function characters and functional mechanisms. Ye discovered that the CNTF receptor was a polymer and that there were some similarities between the receptor mechanism and the leukemia prohibition factor. She also researched function characters of CNTF.

Ye discovered that functions of nerve nutriments could cooperate. She explained the adjustment mechanism of the formation of nerve muscle projection and discovered that Cdk-5 existed in nerve muscle connectors, which directly influenced the formation of projection and its functional development. Her research results helped to explain the formation mechanism of nerve projections and related functions and helped to understand the mechanism of learning and memory derived from it.

Ye is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a professor at Hong Kong Science and Technology University.