Yu Rao

Tenure-Track Associate Professor, The Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tsinghua University; Professor Yu Rao received his BA degree in 1999 from Shandong Medical University and his master degree in 2002 from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University under the supervision of Prof. Ji-Xiang Chen. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from University of Georgia by working on the synthesis of biologically important complex oligosaccharides under the supervision of Prof. Geert-Jan Boons (2007). He then carried out post-doctorial research work at Sloan-kettering Cancer Center under the supervision of Prof. Sameul J. Danishefsky (2007-2010), focusing on the synthesis of bioactive natural products. He joined School of Medicine in Tsinghua University in 2010. Prof. Rao's research interests are mainly focused on developing novel therapeutics for infectious disease and cancer treatment. Prof. Rao’s laboratory has the expertises in the fields of medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry and chemical biology. So far, he has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers on the leading journals such as Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chemical Science, Nature, Org. Lett. and Chem. Commun., etc.