Tao Ye
Professor & Deputy Dean
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China
Biography
Tao Ye obtained his PhD from Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) (1993). After pursuing a post-doctoral stay (1993-1994) with Professor Tony McKervey at QUB, he moved to Nottingham University (1994-1998) as a "Realising our Potential Award" (ROPA) fellow to engage in the total synthesis of marine natural products, working with Professor Gerry Pattenden, FRS. He started his independent career in 1998, initially at The University of Hong Kong and then joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001. In 2015, he moved to Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School where as a Professor of Chemical Biology and Senior PI. He received a "Xiaoyu Hu Memorial Awardâ€, a “WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Awardâ€, and has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Research Interest
His research interests span the disciplines of natural product synthesis, chemical biology and drug discovery, which include the discovery and development of new agents of medicinal value through major advances in chemical synthesis. In addition to the completion of total synthesis of 50 natural products, he is well-known for contributions to the structural revision of the misassigned natural products.