About Hualiang Jiang’s work
Hualiang Jiang held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from August 2001 to February 2002. At the time, Jiang was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Hualiang Jiang studied chemistry at Nanjing University and earned a master’s degree in science at East China Normal University in 1992. He completed his doctorate at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica in 1995 and stayed on as a researcher. He later directed the institute from 2013 to 2019.
Jiang developed computational methods for designing drugs and identifying the molecules on which they act. He used molecular probes to investigate how potential drug targets work and to test their role in disease. With collaborators, he worked on candidates for treating pulmonary hypertension, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. Several candidates progressed to clinical research or received approval for clinical studies.
In 1997 Jiang received support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He became the first dean of the School of Pharmacy at East China University of Science and Technology in 2004 and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017.