香港中文大學（深圳）迎來首位榮譽教授
5月19日，世界著名生物信息學家、五院院士邁克爾?沃特曼教授從香港中文大學（深圳）校長徐揚生院士手中接過了本校榮譽教授聘書，成為了香港中文大學（深圳）首位榮譽教授。香港中文大學（深圳）高端學術講壇之一的大師講堂旨在通過邀請世界上各領域的著名專家學者講述最新的科技前沿動態和科學研究進展，從而更好的實現香港中大（深圳）的科學研究、人才培養、社會服務的重要職能。
???? 邁克爾?沃特曼教授是美國文理科學院院士、美國國家科學院院士、美國國家工程院院士、法國科學院外籍院士和中國科學院外籍院士，其研究領域為計算生物學和生物信息學，重點結合數學、生物學數據統計和計算機科學對分子生物學，尤其對脫氧核糖核酸（DNA）、核糖核酸（RNA）和蛋白質序列數據的利用與產生進行研究。2002年沃特曼教授榮獲佳德納基金會國際獎，并于2013年獲得中國政府頒發的中華人民共和國友誼獎。
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Prof. Michael Waterman spoke on CUHK(SZ)?campus for bio-informatics
? ? ?? On May 19th, Michael Waterman, a world-renowned bio-informatician, took over the honorary professor offer from Xu Yangsheng, President of Chinese University of HK, Shenzhen [CUHK(SZ)]. It was a historic moment for both Prof. Watermen and CUHK(SZ) for he has become the first honorary professor since the foundation of the university and the first grandmaster landed for one of our premium academic forums at the same time. After the ceremony, Prof. Waterman delivered a speech on bio-informatics as the founder of this scientific discipline, whichaims to introduce the latest technology developments and scientific progress to better achieve CUHK(SZ)’s functions of research, personnel training and social services.
? ????? Professor Michael Waterman was elected to be the fellows of the Academy of Arts and Sciences USA, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Foreign Academy of French Academy of Sciences and the Foreign Academy of Chinese Academy of sciences. Professor Michael Waterman elaborated on computational biology and bio-informatics, focusing on combining maths, Biological statistics and Computer science to molecular biology, especially on research for DNA, RNA and protein sequence data. In the year 2002, Professor Waterman won the Best Dana Foundation International Award and was then granted the China Friendship Award issued by Chinese government ?in 2013 .
