On February 23^rd of US time, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships, and WENG Jingke, alumni of 2013 College of Life Sciences won the award.

        The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars. Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Awards were later added in neuroscience (1972), economics (1980), computer science (1993), and computational and evolutionary molecular biology (2002). These two-year fellowships are awarded to 126 researchers yearly. Since the beginning of the program in 1955, 43 fellows have won a Nobel Prize, and 16 have won the Fields Medal in mathematics.

        WENG Jingke got the bachelor’s degree of biotechnology in 2003. In 2009, he got the doctor’s degree of biochemistry in Purdue University. From 2009 to 2013, he followed Joseph P. Noel to do postdoctoral research in Salk Biology Institute. He is now assistant professor of MIT, and the member of Whitehead Institute in MIT.

        He has awarded Tansley Medal (2013)，ASPB Early Career Award (2014)，Searle Scholar Award (2015) and so on. His research areas are as follows: metabolic alternations, hormonal signal, interspecific chemical interactions, metabolic engineering, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.