Professional Activities

Honors And Awards

• State Council Expert for Special Allowance, 2013
• Outstanding Teacher of Peking Union Medical College, 2013
• Outstanding Investigator of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2012
• National Outstanding Youth Award of Natural Science Foundation of China, 2010
• Xiehe Professor, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2010
• President Award for Special Recognition as Investigator in Research, New York Blood Center, 2008
• CFAR Pilot Award in HIV Research, NIH, 2002

Personal Statement
The research projects of Dr. He’s lab focus on the structure and function of HIV-1 envelope (Env) glycoprotein that mediates virus entry and induces neutralizing antibodies. Specifically, we study the mechanism of Env-mediated membrane fusion and design HIV-1 entry inhibitors. One of our recent findings is the M-T hook structure that plays critical roles for HIV-1 entry and inhibition. The second line of the projects focuses on the isolation and characterization of human neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against HIV-1, with a goal of better defining Env-based neutralizing epitopes that are important for vaccine immunogen design and immunotherapy.

Positions and Honors 
Positions and Employment

1993 -1997	Assistant Professor/Director, Department of Clinical Virology, Ditan Hospital, Beijing.
1997-1999	Research Fellow, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, the Rockefeller University, New York.
2000-2003 New York.	Research Associate, Laboratory of Retrovirology, the Public Health Research Center, New York.
2003-2008	Assistant Member, LFK Research Institute, New York Blood Center (NYBC), New York.
2008-2010	Professor and Associate Director, The AIDS Research Center, Chinese   Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
2010-now	Professor and Director, The AIDS Research Center, Chinese   Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China