香港中文大學(xué)（深圳）迎來(lái)首位榮譽(yù)教授

2014-05-19 新聞

5月19日，世界著名生物信息學(xué)家、五院院士邁克爾?沃特曼教授從香港中文大學(xué)（深圳）校長(zhǎng)徐揚(yáng)生院士手中接過(guò)了本校榮譽(yù)教授聘書(shū)，成為了香港中文大學(xué)（深圳）首位榮譽(yù)教授。香港中文大學(xué)（深圳）高端學(xué)術(shù)講壇之一的大師講堂旨在通過(guò)邀請(qǐng)世界上各領(lǐng)域的著名專(zhuān)家學(xué)者講述最新的科技前沿動(dòng)態(tài)和科學(xué)研究進(jìn)展，從而更好的實(shí)現(xiàn)香港中大（深圳）的科學(xué)研究、人才培養(yǎng)、社會(huì)服務(wù)的重要職能。

???? 邁克爾?沃特曼教授是美國(guó)文理科學(xué)院院士、美國(guó)國(guó)家科學(xué)院院士、美國(guó)國(guó)家工程院院士、法國(guó)科學(xué)院外籍院士和中國(guó)科學(xué)院外籍院士，其研究領(lǐng)域?yàn)橛?jì)算生物學(xué)和生物信息學(xué)，重點(diǎn)結(jié)合數(shù)學(xué)、生物學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)和計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)對(duì)分子生物學(xué)，尤其對(duì)脫氧核糖核酸（DNA）、核糖核酸（RNA）和蛋白質(zhì)序列數(shù)據(jù)的利用與產(chǎn)生進(jìn)行研究。2002年沃特曼教授榮獲佳德納基金會(huì)國(guó)際獎(jiǎng)，并于2013年獲得中國(guó)政府頒發(fā)的中華人民共和國(guó)友誼獎(jiǎng)。

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Prof. Michael Waterman spoke on CUHK(SZ)?campus for bio-informatics

? ? ?? On May 19th, Michael Waterman, a world-renowned bio-informatician, took over the honorary professor offer from Xu Yangsheng, President of Chinese University of HK, Shenzhen [CUHK(SZ)]. It was a historic moment for both Prof. Watermen and CUHK(SZ) for he has become the first honorary professor since the foundation of the university and the first grandmaster landed for one of our premium academic forums at the same time. After the ceremony, Prof. Waterman delivered a speech on bio-informatics as the founder of this scientific discipline, whichaims to introduce the latest technology developments and scientific progress to better achieve CUHK(SZ)’s functions of research, personnel training and social services.

? ????? Professor Michael Waterman was elected to be the fellows of the Academy of Arts and Sciences USA, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Foreign Academy of French Academy of Sciences and the Foreign Academy of Chinese Academy of sciences. Professor Michael Waterman elaborated on computational biology and bio-informatics, focusing on combining maths, Biological statistics and Computer science to molecular biology, especially on research for DNA, RNA and protein sequence data. In the year 2002, Professor Waterman won the Best Dana Foundation International Award and was then granted the China Friendship Award issued by Chinese government ?in 2013 .