王晓东 博士，资深研究员，所长，
美国国家科学院院士
Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D., Investigator,
Director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
电话（Tel）：010-80726688-8501
传真（Fax）：010-80726689
E-mail：wangxiaodong@nibs.ac.cn

教育经历Education
1984年 北京师范大学生物系学士
1991年 美国德克萨斯大学西南医学中心生物化学博士
工作经历Professional Experience
2004年4月获美国科学院分子生物学奖，并当选美国国家科学院院士
2003年任北京生命科学研究所所长
2002-present  霍华德-休斯医学研究所研究员
2001-present  美国德克萨斯大学西南医学中心生物医学科学杰出首席教授
1999-2001  美国德克萨斯大学西南医学中心生物化学系副教授）
1997-2002  霍华德-休斯医学研究所助理研究员
1996-1999  美国德克萨斯大学西南医学中心生物化学系助理教授
1995-1996   Emory大学医学院生物化学系助理教授，从事哺乳动物细胞凋亡的生物化学途径的研究
近期论文
1 Narimon Honarpour, Chunying Du,, James A. Richardson, Robert E. Hammer, Xiaodong Wang, and Joachim Herz (2000). Adult Apaf-1 deficient mice exhibit male infertility. Dev. Biol. 218, 248-258.
2. Piotr Widlak, Peng Li, Xiaodong Wang, and William T. Garrard (2000). Cleavage preferences of the apoptotic endonuclease DFF40 (caspase-activated DNase or nuclease) on naked DNA and chromatin substrates. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 8226-8232.
3. Kang Li, Yucheng Li, John M. Shelton, James A. Richardson, Erika Spencer, Zhijian J. Chen, Xiaodong Wang, and R. Sanders Williams (2000). Cytochrome c deficiency causes embryonic lethality and attenuates stress-induced apoptosis. Cell 101, 389–399.
4. Davide Genini, Imawati Budihardjo, William Plunkett, Xiaodong Wang, Carlos J. Carrera, Howard B. Cottam, Dennis A. Carson, and Lorenzo M. Leoni. (2000). Nucleotide Requirements for the in Vitro Activation of the Apoptosis Protein-activating Factor-1-mediated Caspase Pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 29-34.
5. Dori, A. Thomas, Chunying du, Ming Xu, Xiaodong Wang, and Timothy J. Ley (2000). DFF45/ICAD can be directly processed by Granzyme B duirng the induction of apoptosis. Immunity 12, 621-632.
6. Chunying Du, Min Fang, Yucheng Li, Lily Li, and Xiaodong Wang (2000). Smac, a mitochondrial protein that promotes cytochrome c-dependent caspase activation by eliminating IAP inhibition. Cell 102, 33-42.
7. Michael Lutter, Min Fang, Xu Luo, Masahiro Nishijima, Xiao-song Xie, and Xiaodong Wang (2000). Cardiolipin provides specificity for Bid targeting to mitochondria. Nature Cell Biol. 2, 754-756.
8. Jijie Chai, Chunying Du, Jia-Wei Wu, Saw Kyin, Xiaodong Wang, and Yigong Shi (2000). Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO. Nature 406, 855-862.
9. Xuejun Jiang and Xiaodong Wang (2000). Cytochrome c promotes caspase-9 activation by inducing nucleotide binding to Apaf-1. J. Biol. Chem. 275, 31199-31203.
10. Geng Wu, Jijie Chai, Tomeka Suber, Jia-Wei Wu, Chunying Du, Xiaodong Wang, and Yigong Shi (2000). Structural basis of IAP recognition by Smac/DIABLO. Nature 408, 1008-1012.
 

11. Tianning Yu, Xiaodong Wang, Cherie Purring-Koch, Yen Wei, and George L. McLendon (2001). A Mutational epitope for proapoptotic cytochrome c binding to the apoptotic protease activation factor-1(Apaf-1). J. Biol. Chem. 276, 13034-13038.
12 Marisan Mejillano, Masaya Yamamoto, Andrew L Rozelle, Hui-Qiao Sun, Xiaodong Wang, and Helen L Yin (2001). Regulation of apoptosis by phosphatidylinositol 4, 5 Bisphosphate inhibition of caspases, and caspase inactivation of phosphatidylinositol phosphate 5 kinases. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 1865-1872.
13. Lily Y. Li, Xu Luo, and Xiaodong Wang (2001) Endonuclease G (EndoG) is an apoptotic DNase when released from Mitochondria. Nature 412, 95-99.
14. Jay Parrish, Lily Li, Kristina Klotz, Duncan Ledwich, Xiaodong Wang and Ding Xue (2001) The C. elegans mitochondrial nuclease Endonuclease G is important for DNA fragmentation and progression of apoptosis. Nature 412, 90-94.
15. Narimon Honarpour, Sandra Gilbert, Bruce Lahn, Xiaodong Wang, and Joachim Herz (2001) Apaf-1 deficiency and neural tube closure defects are found in fog mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98, 9683-9687.
16. Piotr Widlak, Lily Y. Li, Xiaodong Wang, and William T. Garrard (2001) Action of recombinant human apoptotic endonuclease G on naked DNA and chromatin substrates: Cooperation with exonuclease and DNase I. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 48404-48409.
17. Michael Lutter, Guy Perkins, Xiaodong Wang (2001). The pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member tBid localizes to mitochondrial contact site. BMC Cell Biology 2, 22.
18. Jonathan P. Carson, Marcelina Behnam, Jennifer N. Sutton, Chunying Du, Xiaodong Wang, Donald F. Hunt, Michael J. Weber, and George Kulik. (2002). Smac Is Required for Cytochrome c-induced Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer LNCaP Cells. Cancer Res. 62. 18-23.
19. Devrim Acehan, Xuejun Jiang, David Gene Morgan, John E. Heuser, Xiaodong Wang and Christopher W. Akey (2002). Three-dimensional structure of the apoptosome: implications for assembly, procaspase-9 binding, and activation. Mol. Cell 9. 423-432.
20. Hitoshi Okada, Woong-Kyung Suh, Jianping Jin, Minna Woo, Chunying Du, Andrew Elia, Gordon S. Duncan, Andrew Wakeham, Annick Itie, Scott W. Lowe, Xiaodong Wang, and Tak W. Mak (2002). Generation and characterization of Smac/DIABLO-deficient mice. Mol. Cell. Biol. 22, 3509-3517.
21. Mohanish Deshmukh, Chunying Du, Xiaodong Wang, and Eugene M. Johnson, Jr. (2002). Exogenous Smac induces competence and permits caspase activation in sympathetic neurons. Italic 22, 8018-8027.
22. Xuejun Jiang, Hyun-Eui Kim, Hongjun Shu, Yingmin Zhao, Haichao Zhang, James Kofron, Jennifer Donnelly, Dave Burns, Shi-chung Ng, Saul Rosenberg, and Xiaodong Wang (2003). Distinctive roles of PHAP proteins and prothymosin-α in a death Regulatory Pathway. Science 299, 223-226.
23. Deepak Nijhawan, Min Fang, Elie Traer, Qing Zhong, Wenhua Gao, Fenghe Du and Xiaodong Wang (2003). Elimination of Mcl-1 is required for the initiation of apoptosis following ultraviolet irradiation. Genes & Dev. 17, 1475-1486.
24. Qinghua Liu, Tim A. Rand, Savitha Kalidas, Fenghe Du, Hyun-Eui Kim, Dean P. Smith and (2003). R2D2, a bridge between the initiation and effector steps of the Drosophila RNAi pathway. Science 301, 1921-1925.
25. Jianhua Zhang, Mei Dong, Lily Li, Yunxia Fan, Purnima Pathre, Jin Dong, Danwen Lou, James M. Wells, Danyvid Olivares-Villagómez, Luc Van Kaer, Xiaodong Wang, and Ming Xu (2003). Endonuclease G is required for early embryogenesis and normal apoptosis in mice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.100, 15782-15787.
26. Lin Li, Ranny Mathew Thomas, Hidetaka Suzuki, Jef K. DeBrabander, Xiaodong Wang, and Patrick G. Harran (2004). A small molecule Smac mimic potentiates Trail- and TNFa-mediated cell death. Science In Press.