Cheng Yifan

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco

Cheng Yifan was awarded his bachelor's degree in science at Wuhan University in 1982. In 1991, he graduated from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctorate.

He mainly studies cryo-electron microscopy and colleagues attest that he has helped push forward  research into Cryo-EM across the country.

He won the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship in 1991 and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship in 1994. In 2014, Cheng was honored with the K.H. Kuo Award for a Distinguished Scientist from the Chinese Electron Microscopy Society.