Jingdong Tian

Dr. Tian is a pioneer in chip-based gene synthesis technology, who has led the effort of developing the world’s first high-throughput on-chip gene synthesizer. This technology has opened the door for large scale and economical gene and genome synthesis and its numerous applications, and is ushering synthetic biology and biotechnology into a new era. His team has also developed methods that allow determination of a protein’s true expression potential in a given expression system and design of genes with optimal expression level in a genetic system. Dr. Tian received his PhD degree from Stony Brook University, followed by a Life Science Research Foundation (LSRF) postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Genome Sciences at Duke University and then Professor and Director of Synthetic Genomics Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was named an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator and received a Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award. His research was published in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Trends in Biotechnology and other top academic journals. He is the founder and president of General Biosystems, Inc. and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board.