ZHANG Yaping, Professor and Ph.D. in Genetics, is Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Leading Group of CAS.
Dr. ZHANG is a member of CAS, a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), and a member of Academia Europaea.
He has long been engaged in the study of molecular evolution and genome biodiversity and has made remarkable achievements in the areas of animal molecular phylogenetics, the origins and domestication mechanisms of domestic animals, the genetic diversity and evolution of Asian populations, and the genetic mechanism of animal adaptive evolution. His contributions to science have been acknowledged with two National Natural Science Award of China Second Prizes.
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