Duke Kunshan University has granted tenure to three GHRC faculty members in recognition of their outstanding contributions as scholars and educators.
The promoted tenure-track professors are Linfeng Huang and Qian Long, while Jianbo Yue is awarded the status as a new appointment.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Scott MacEachern said he is very happy to recognize another group of newly tenured faculty members.
“Their research and teaching spans the range of disciplines and academic fields offered in the DKU curriculum, and their accomplishments make all of us proud,” he said.
“In the future, these are the faculty who will step into new academic leadership roles at the university.”
Duke Kunshan University Board of Trustees conferred tenure on the recipients for the 2021-22 academic year following the recommendations of MacEachern and DKU’s Appointment, Promotion and Tenure (APT) Committee. Last year, five faculty members were granted tenure.
Tenure at Duke Kunshan — an appointments system that helps to protect academic freedom — is reserved for those who have served as highly effective teachers, produced work widely perceived among peers to be outstanding and made significant contributions to the university community
Dr. Long’s research interests and experience center on health equity in relation to the development of health systems, with a focus on financing and services organization and delivery. She specializes in maternal and child health, tuberculosis control and NCDs management in poor areas and among vulnerable groups. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University, she was based in Geneva for over two years working in the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and undertook postdoctoral training at the Duke Global Health Institute.
Dr. Huang is passionate about advancing the understanding of ribonucleic acid (RNA) biology to develop powerful RNA-based biotechnology and therapeutics. He has made highly significant contributions to the RNA interference (RNAi) field. At Duke Kunshan, his teaching interests include microbiology, genetics, cell biology and molecular biology.
Dr. Huang has a B.Sc. from the College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, and a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, U.K. He completed his postdoctoral training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Yue’s research focuses on cell signaling related to autophagy, endosomal trafficking, metastasis, anti-cancer immunity, Ca 2+ and reactive oxygen species (ROS). Dr. Yue graduated from Sichuan University with a B.Sc. in biochemistry, Peking University with an M.Sc. in genetics and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology. After postdoc training at Stanford University, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Hong Kong before joining the City University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
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