Yang Yong    Professor, chief physician

Peking University First Hospital

        He is the chief physician and professor of dermatology in the first hospital of Peking University; a clinical researcher of the life science joint center of Peking University and Tsinghua University; vice chairman of the Youth Committee of the dermatology and Venereology branch of the Chinese Medical Association; and the head of the rare disease group of the dermatologists branch of the Chinese Medical Association. Research areas include monogenic inherited skin diseases, ion channels, pain and itching. The research results include: led the research group to identify the pathogenic genes of seven genetic diseases, including primary erythema acrodynia and Olmsted syndrome, among which 4 are ion channel genes. Therefore, the concept of skin ion channel disease was first proposed. 49 SCI papers were published, of which 9 papers had impact factors greater than 10, including Nature Genetics, Nature Immunology, NEJM, Lancet, ajhg, brain, etc. He presided over 5 National Natural Science Foundation projects, won "Beijing Science and Technology Award" and "Chinese medical science and Technology Award" as the first person to complete. He was selected into the "New Century Excellent Talent Plan" of the Ministry of education, and won the National Outstanding Youth Fund in 2014.