“I would feel the same pain as they do and it’s going to be my own responsibility.”
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Jiankui He
He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysicist known for his controversial first use of genome editing in humans in 2018. He was listed as one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2019, in the section "Pioneers". At the same time, he was widely condemned as a mad scientist.
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science · Chinese scientist (born 1984) · biomedical engineer · physicist · geneticist · inventor · also Jiankui He, He Jiankui, He
Born 1984 · Q59223278
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2026· 4 entries
“are as much authorities on what is correct and what is wrong because it’s their life on the line.”
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“Society will decide what to do next”
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“Gene therapy in Western countries often costs millions of dollars, which makes many families fall into poverty due to illness. With the support of social philanthropists, we will overcome three to five genetic diseases within two to three years to benefit families with rare diseases.”
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2025· 3 entries
In April 2025, He Jiankui, 41, married Cathy Tie, 29, shortly after naming his new company "Cathy Medicine".
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In July 2025, He Jiankui revealed on social media that he has two daughters.
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As of 2025, He Jiankui is active on X, formerly known as Twitter, making English-language posts that are mostly about his genetic research.
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2024· 1 entry
STAT: Jiankui He, creator of CRISPR-edited children, relocates to a Chinese medical tourism hub
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2020· 4 entries
Published “Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning” in 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 9,995 times.
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Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,317 times.
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Published “TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data” in Molecular Plant — cited 12,460 times.
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Published “Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 21,685 times.
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2019· 1 entry
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a global registry to track research on human genome editing, after a call to halt all work on genome editing
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Nature's 10 (2018).
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By Sheehy and Samira Kiani, a biotechnologist at Arizona State University
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2017· 6 entries
Gave a presentation at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory describing work he did at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in which he used CRISPR/Cas9 on mice, monkeys, and around 300 human embryos
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Was included in the Chinese government's Thousand Talents Plan
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Published “Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence — cited 34,671 times.
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Published “Mask R-CNN” in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) — cited 26,722 times.
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Published “Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection” in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) — cited 24,557 times.
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Published “Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection” in 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 24,245 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition” in 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) — cited 171,689 times.
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Published “Cancer statistics in China, 2015” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 11,339 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification” in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) — cited 13,230 times.
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2012· 4 entries
Under the city of Shenzhen's Peacock Plan and opened a lab at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
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In Shenzhen, to develop single-molecule sequencing devices based on patents invented by Quake that had formerly been licensed by Helicos Biosciences
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Studied at Stanford University (2011–2012).
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Published “clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters” in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology — cited 32,863 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad while still in the United States
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2010· 4 entries
From Rice University under the supervision of Michael W
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That He was "a very high-impact student" and added that he was "sure he will be highly successful in his career"
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Studied at Rice University, Doctor of Philosophy (2009–2010).
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At Rice University, He Jiankui and Michael W
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2007· 1 entry
And initially studied physics and astronomy there
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2006· 1 entry
Studied at University of Science and Technology of China, Bachelor of Science (2002–2006).
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984.
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