Professional Activities:

Honors (Partial list)

• 1995 British-Sino Friendship Scholarship Award, British Council and China Ministry of Education
• 1998 Nutrition Research Achievement Award, BASF Corp.
• 1998 Annual Biomedicine Research Award (the 1st Place), Michigan State University
• 2006 The ASN Peter Reeds Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the American Society for Nutrition
• 2006 Honorary Professorship of Nutrition, China Agricultural University, Beijing
• 2006 NIH NIDDK KO1 Award
• 2007 Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the National Natural Science Foundation of China
• 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Nutrition Award
• 2009 NIH NIDDK RO3 Award
• 2011 The Mead Johnson Research Award in Endocrinology and Metabolism Section (Postdoc Mentor), the American Physiological Society
• 2012 The New Investigator Award in the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation Section, the American Physiological Society
• 2012 The ENDO 2012 Research Summaries Book, the Endocrine Society
• 2012 The Research Recognition Award in Endocrinology and Metabolism Section (Postdoc Mentor), the American Physiological Society
• 2013 The Takeda Travel Award in the Gastrointestinal and Liver (GI&L) Physiology Section (Postdoc Mentor), the American Physiological Society
• 2014 The Research Recognition Award in the Gastrointestinal and Liver (GI&L) Physiology Section (Postdoc Mentor), the American Physiological Society