On the morning of May 13, Professor Yang Jian from Saskatchewan University in Canada gave an academic report entitled “Anticancer studies: sphingosine-1-phosphate and medicinal plants” at the invitation room of the sixth floor of the College at the invitation of Professor Ji Shaoping of the Basic Medical College. Teachers and students from the Faculty of Basic Medical School, School of Nursing and Health attended the report. The report was hosted by Professor Ji Shaoping, a Yellow River scholar at the School of Basic Medicine.

Professor Yang Jian made this report in English, mainly introducing the synthesis and biological functions of sphingomyelin in cells. Among the five subtypes of the receptor, 1-3 receptors mediate the relative biological functions. Combined with their research, it was analyzed that sphingomyelin may inhibit or promote tumor growth through receptor 1 or 2 at different concentrations, and the potential of anti-tumor with appropriate concentration of sphingomyelin was proposed.

Yang Jian, graduated from the Department of Biology, Peking University from 1985 to 1989, and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, from 1992 to 1997. 1997-2003 As a postdoctoral student, he worked at the Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Center for Basic Medicine at Brandeis University. He is currently a professor at the School of Pharmacy at Saskatchewan University in Canada and a member of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biology. Mainly engaged in the study of the mechanism of sphingomyelin anticancer drugs, the relationship between the interference between Chinese medicine and chemotherapy drugs. He has published more than 50 SCI papers, undertaken 27 scientific research projects in Canada, and was granted 3 patents. He has served as a reviewer for several international journals.