Kun-Liang Guan, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Kun-Liang Guan is a Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Guan received his BS from Hangzhou University and his PhD from Purdue University. He was a faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1992 to 2007. Dr. Guan received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Young Investigator Award in 1999, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University in 2006, and an AAAS fellowship in 2011.

Dr. Guan’s research interest is in cellular signaling and cancer biology, particularly on protein phosphorylation in cell-growth regulation and tumorigenesis. He has worked on the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), mTOR, and Hippo pathways. Dr. Guan has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and is a highly cited researcher in molecular biology and genetics (Goggle Scholar H-index 150). He is a cofounder of OncoImmune Inc. and Vivace Therapeutics.

Complete list of Dr. Guan’s published work:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Guan+kl