Biography:

Dr. Shi studied Biomedical engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, and entered joint Ph.D. program with Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston in 2009. He received his PhD degree in 2014. After one and half year’s postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr Hao Wu at the Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. He obtained the position of an Associate Professor at the HIT. The Shi laboratory of mechanistic immunology focuses on elucidating the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern the regulation and therapeutic intervention of pattern recognition receptors in innate immunity. Our current research focuses on investigating the mechanisms of inflammation in infectious disease and tumorigenesis, especially the inflammation induced by innate immune signaling.