Education/Training

1987        B.S.      

SichuanNormal University (China)    Chemistry

2000       M.S.     

NagoyaUniversity (Japan)   Natural Products Chemistry and Chemical Biology (NPCCB)

2002        Ph.D.    

NagoyaUniversity (Japan)  NPCCB

2002-2007   Postdoc   

NagoyaUniversity (Japan)  NPCCB

Supervisorof Nagoya University:Professor Youji Sakagami

Academic Appointments

2007.8-2008.4    Professor,School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, China.

2008.5-present    Professor, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, China.

2010-present   Deputy Director, Institute of Materia Medica, Zhejiang University, China.

Honors and Awards

2001-2002  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship(Doctor Course)

2002-2003  JSPS Fellowship(Postdoctor)

2005-2007  JSPS Fellowship(Postdoctor)

Research interests:

Isolation and structure determination of endogenous and exogenous bioactive substances, biological mechanism, synthesis and biosynthesis of bioactive compounds. He has published 40 research papers on international journals including Science, Nature Chemical Biology, ChemMedChem, Tetrahedron, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters etc..

Representative Publications:

1) The second Phytophthora mating hormone defines interspecies biosynthetic crosstalk.

M. Ojika, S. Molli, H. Kanazawa, A. Yajima, K.Toda,T. Nukada, H. Mao, R. Murata, T. Asano, J. Qi, & Y. Sakagami, Nature Chemical Biology, 2011,7, 591-593.

2). Synthesis and absolute configuration of hormone alpha1.

A. Yajima,* Y. Qin,* X. Zhou, N. Kawanishi, X. Xiao, J. Wang, D. Zhang, Y. Wu, T. Nukada, G. Yabuta, J. Qi,* T. Asano & Y. Sakagami, Nature Chemical Biology, 2008, 4, 235-237. (* Corresponding authors contributed equally)

3). Characterization of a Phytophthora Mating Hormone.

J. Qi, T. Asano, M. Jinno, K. Matsui, K. Atsumi, Y. Sakagami&M. Ojika, Science, 2005, 309, 1828.

4) Structure-activity Relationships of Neuritogenic Gentiside Derivatives.

Y. Luo, K. Sun, L. Li, L. Gao, G. Wang, Y. Qu, L. Xiang, L. Chen, Y. Hu and J. Qi,*ChemMedChem,2011,6, 1986-1989.

5)Granulatoside A, a starfish steroid glycoside, enhances PC12 cell neuritogenesis induced by nerve growth factor through an activation of MAP Kinase.

J. Qi, C. Han, Y. Sasayama, H. Nakahara, T. Shibata, K. Uchida, &M. Ojika, ChemMedChem, 2006, 1, 1351-1354.