Profile

Dr. Sheng-Ce Tao is a Professor of the Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his bachelor's degree (1997) in microbiology from Shandong University and his master's degree (2000) in molecular biology and biochemistry from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he received his Ph. D. from Tsinghua University under the supervision of Professor Jing Cheng, a pioneer of microarray technology in China and an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prior to coming to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Heng Zhu, professor of Johns Hopkins University.

Majors

His major interests are high-throughput biotechnology development and application, including protein microarray, phage-display, antibody technology and nucleic acid testing.

Achievements

1) 120+ scientific papers published in Cell, Science, PNAS, Nature Biotechnology, Nature communications, Nature Methods, and so on;

2) 10+ book chapters;

3) >30 issued patents.

Titles

Dr. Tao is a renowned scientist in the field of protein microarray technology. He is now on the editorial board of Proteomics, associate editor of Frontiers in immunology, associate editor of BMC bioinformatics.

He is the committee member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the committee member of a variety of associations, including Chinese Systems Biomedicine Association (The vice director and the general secretary), Chinese Molecular Systems Biology Association, Chinese Biochip Association, Chinese Biosensor, Biochip and Nano-biology Association, Chinese Proteomics Association and Chinese Glycobiology Association.

Supporting

The researches in his group have been/are supported by a variety of grants, which include 973, 863 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China and so on.