Xu Guoliang (; born February 1965) is a Chinese molecular geneticist. He is a professor at the

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences are a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai, established on July 3, 1999. When it was created, it was one of four basic science research institutions of China. The organi ...

and an academician of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Repub ...

Biography

Xu graduated from

Hangzhou University Hangzhou University (), colloquially called Hangda () and formerly romanised as Hangchow University, was a public university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. The university was founded as Zhejiang Teachers College () in 1952 by merging the department ...

Department of Biology in 1985, and obtained his master's degree at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,

in 1989. In 1993 he earned his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

.中国科学院学部：徐国良
/ref> Xu's research mainly focuses on the

epigenetic regulation In biology, epigenetics is the study of stable phenotypic changes (known as ''marks'') that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix '' epi-'' ( "over, outside of, around") in ''epigenetics'' implies features that are "o ...

. In 2011 his group discovered that the DNA oxidative demethylation is mediated by DNA oxidase TET and glycosidase TDG, and clarified its role in the canceration of the cells. In 2014, he published his study concerning the effect of DNA methylation and histone modification. In 2013, Xu was awarded the

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"for his contribution to the understanding of the role and mechanism of DNA oxidation in epigenetic regulation of mammalian development". He won the Tan Kah Kee award in 2014.徐国良研究员荣获2014年度陈嘉庚科学奖生命科学奖
/ref> In 2015, he was elected a member of the

References

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