Archive · 23 Aug 2025
Award-Winning HIV Scientist Leaves US, Joins China's SMART Academy
An award-winning scientist named Shan Liang, who studied HIV, is moving from the United States to China.
He will work at a research center called SMART and lead a team studying the immune system and HIV.
His research aims to understand how the body fights HIV and find ways to get rid of it.
He previously worked at a US university and has won awards for his research.
This move is part of a trend where top scientists are choosing to work at the SMART center in China.
Award-winning HIV researcher Shan Liang leaves the US for a senior role at Shenzhen Medical Academy.
Liang will head the Institute of Human Immunology at the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART).
His research focuses on HIV infection and identifying immune mechanisms to eliminate the virus.
Liang previously worked at Washington University School of Medicine and earned several honors.
This is the third senior scientist to join SMART from a major US institution this year.
- Who
- Shan Liang, an HIV researcher, formerly at Washington University School of Medicine.
- What
- HIV researcher Shan Liang joined Shenzhen Medical Academy.
- When
- August 2024
- Where
- Shenzhen, China
- Why
- To take up a senior role at the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) and head its Institute of Human Immunology.
- Researcher
- Shan Liang
- Former Affiliation
- Washington University School of Medicine
- New Affiliation
- Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART)
- Role at SMART
- Head of Institute of Human Immunology
- Research Focus
- HIV infection and immune mechanisms
- Awards
- 2024 Unanue Prize