Dr. Xu Tian and His China Mouse House

Xu Tian, PhD, is an accomplished China transplant with impeccable credentials in the world of US genetic research. He is Vice-Chairman of Genetics at Yale University, and he is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Yet, he is conducting research at Fudan University, which funded the Mouse Functional Genome Project after the US passed on the huge, but important endeavor, as The New York Times noted in a recent article. Although the story seemed to surprise the Times, Dr. Xu is part of the larger returnee phenomenon that has seen a growing number of scientists find their way back to the PRC in recent years. More details....