Name : Qiwei Present position : Professor Principal Investigator Laboratory of Nutrition & Chronic Metabolic Diseases Institute for Nutritional Sciences Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: [email protected]

Educational Background & Professional Experience Education: 1995-2000 Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Science. 1991-1995 B.S. in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Nanjing University 2004- Professor, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2003-2004 Associate professor, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2002-2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Publications 1. X, Z, W, Shi X, Zhai Q *. Chromium(VI) Induces Insulin Resistance in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes Through Elevated Reactive Oxygen Species Generation. Free Radic. Res. 2008, 42(6):554-563. 2. Ge X, Q, Qi W, Shi X, Zhai Q *.Chronic Insulin Treatment Causes Insulin Resistance in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes through Oxidative Stress. Free Radic. Res. 2008, 42(6):582-591. 3. F, Sun C, J, He C, Ge X, W, Zou Y, Chen X, Qi W, Zhai Q *. Combretastatin A-4 activates AMP-activated protein kinase and improves glucose metabolism in db/db mice. Pharmacol. Res . 2008; 57(4): 318-23 4. Sun C, Zhang F, Ge X, T, Chen X, Shi X, Zhai Q #. SIRT1 Improves Insulin Sensitivity under Insulin-Resistant Conditions by Repressing PTP1B. Cell Metab . 2007; 6(4):307-19. 5. Featured Article. Highlighted by Featured Preview: Zabolotny JM, Kim YB. Silencing insulin resistance through SIRT1. Cell Metab. 2007; 6(4):247-9. 6. Highlighted by Cell Press at EurekAlert: Wampler N. Low doses of a red wine ingredient fight diabetes in mice. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/cp-ldo092607.php

7. Q, Yan T, Ge X, Sun C, Shi X, Zhai Q *. Cytoplasm-localized SIRT1 enhances apoptosis. J. Cell. Physiol. 2007, 213 (1): 88-97.