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Biography Revised: 5/20/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Kong Xiangfu
Kong Xiangfu 孔祥复
Molecular Biologist

Biography

Kong studied biological synthesis and regulation and control mechanism of galactoside acid. He clarified that Met-tRNA's modification and transcription end factors and their role and mechanism in biological synthesis of bacteria. He also purified the artificial interferon of reorganization.

Kong crystallized the first reorganization-originated protein-interferon A. He set forth the relations between Ras gene and tumor. He found out that for cancer growth, the Ras gene needs the action of phosphatidase C and nervous growth factor towards the Ras signal. Taking the African bufonid's fetation as a system, he studied the signal transducing channel of bone formation protein (BMP-4). He set forth the effect of them and the GATA gene towards the formation of mesoblasts. Kong pointed out that BMP-4 restrains the formation of nervous ectoderm. He studied the structure, function and properties of multiple kinds of plant-originated anti-virus and anti-tumor medicine. Finally, he set forth the mechanism of HCG products against HIV, providing a new idea for the development of anti-HIV medicine.

Career Data

1999— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, Molecular Biology Research Institute Hong Kong SAR
1969 Graduate, Vanderbilt University, Pharmacy College USA, Tennessee, Nashville (Received Doctorate)
1963 Graduate, Vanderbilt University USA, Tennessee, Nashville


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