Speaker

Dr. Yilong Zou obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Tsinghua University (2009), PhD degree from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2016), and performed his postdoc at the Broad Institute and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. Yilong joined Westlake University as a Principal Investigator in 2020 Nov. Yilong’s lab is generally interested in the molecular interplay of cell death and lipid metabolism in physiology and diseases, and the development of cutting-edge technologies for the reading and interrogation of biomolecules in situ. Yilong’s work has been recognized by awards and honors, including the “35 Innovators Under 35” (2022) by MIT Tech Review, Benyuan Young Investigator (2024), the international CDD John F.R. Kerr Prize in cell death research (2026) and the 2026 Young Chemical Biologist Award from the International Chemical Biology Society.

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