Ji Weizhi

Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Ji Weizhi, was born in June 1950 in Kunming, Yunnan province. In 1982, Ji graduated from Yunan University with a bachelor's degree. He became an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. Ji is now the president of the Institute of translational research at Kunming University of Science and Technology.

Ji mainly works on reproduction and developmental biology. He has taken the lead in making great achievements in gene editing of primate models in the country.