Zhou Tianhua (Chief Scientist) has the title of “The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”, and serves as a Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University and a PhD supervisor. He is currently the Vice President of Zhejiang University, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Medicine, President of the Medical Cell Biology Branch of the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, a leading scientist of the National "Ten Thousand People Plan", a leading scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a leading scientist of the Ministry of Education. He is a recipient of the "New Century Excellent Talent Program" of the Ministry of Education. He is mainly engaged in the research on the molecular regulation mechanism of cell motility and cell cycle and its role in the development of gastric cancer. He has explored the important regulatory mechanisms of cytoskeleton, selective autophagy involved in ciliogenesis; discovered important new members of WNT/β-catenin pathway and its mechanism in tumor; and discovered key gastric cancer cell metastasis-related LncRNA for the first time, revealing a new mode of genetic information transmission and its new mechanism of regulating gastric cancer metastasis. He has published high-quality papers in Cell Research, Gastroenterology and other journals, which have received wide attention from related fields at home and abroad.
