Shuguang Yuan PhD

Prof. Shuguang Yuan obtained his master's degree in biochemistry and structural biology from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. Following that, his doctoral dissertation was funded by the Maria Curie Fellowship. It was conducted in three different institutes in Europe: EPFL(Switzerland), the Polish Academy of Science(Poland), and KU Leuven University(Belgium). In his research, he investigated the principles of various biological systems, including enzymes, kinases, ion channels, transporters, and, in particular, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).

In June 2013, he was awarded a PhD title with the honor of a distinguished thesis. Following that, he was offered the Marie Curie ETH Postdoc Fellowship. In 2014, Prof. Yuan proposed a theory about the activation mechanism and the continuous water channel of GPCRs (Nature Communications, 2014), which are widely recognized in this area. Prof. Yuan worked at Idorsia (previously known as Actelion) Pharmaceutical Ltd in Basel as a specialist in computer-aided drug design (CADD) for 5 years. In the past few years, he has advanced two of his designed molecules into clinical trials. In 2018, he was honored with the title of "affiliate professor" by the University of Warsaw. In 2022, Prof. Yuan was in the list of the "top 2%" scientists in the world.