(Tsinghua News Center) Alumni Wang Fan and Chen Ting, both graduates of the Class of ’88, recently won the 2004 Sloan Research Fellowship Award in the United States.

Wang Fan, a biology major, studied at Tsinghua from 1988 – 1993, and then received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the U.S. He is currently an assistant professor of neurology at Duke University.

Chen Ting, who majored in computer science, went to the U.S. to pursue his education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997. From 1997-2000, he was an instructor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Since then, he has worked at the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in the departments of biology, computer science, and mathematics.

The Sloan Research Fellowship Award has been given annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the most outstanding young professors in scientific fields such as molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, neurology and physics. More than 26 Nobel laureates have received the award.

Reported by Department of Biology

Translated by Che Jing