Dr. FANG Xiangdong is currently a professor of Beijing Institute for Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Dr. FANG started his scientific career since 1992 when he received his M.D. degree from Nanfang Medical University in Guangzhou, China. After 5-years professional training at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology leaded by Dr. CHI Chengwu, the Academician of CAS, in the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in CAS in Shanghai, Dr. FANG received his Master degree in Immunology in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in Anatomy and Histology and Embryology in 1999. Dr. FANG continued his postdoctoral research in the Division of Medical Genetics in the Medical School at University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) from 2000 to 2003. He was promoted to Instructor in 2003 and Research Assistant Professor in Medicine in 2007. When he worked in the Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos’s lab, Dr. FANG developed the methods named chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and chromatin conformation capture (3C) assay by adapting the real-time PCR method. These quantitative methods are two of the most important epigenetic techniques to study protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions in vivo.

Protein-DNA, Mutations, Clinical biomarkers