Ruijun Tian

Dr. Ruijun Tian, Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Southern University of Science and Technology, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Director of the Research Center for Chemical Biology and Omics Analysis, Director of the Technology Transfer Center at Southern University of Science and Technology, Vice Dean of Guangming Advanced Research Institute at Southern University of Science and Technology, Adjunct Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology; Vice President of China Human Proteome Organization (CNHUPO), Vice Chairman of the Chromatography Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, Council Member of the Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society, and Council Member of the Chinese Society for Molecular Systems Biology. Obtained his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. Completed postdoctoral research at the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada. Since 2014, has been appointed to the Department of Chemistry at Southern University of Science and Technology, dedicated to methodological and technical research in proteomics, emphasizing its applications in biomedical research directions such as cell signal transduction and pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment. Has published over 100 papers in mainstream academic journals such as Nature, Nat. Chem. Biol., Cell Chem. Biol., PNAS, Nat. Commun., Mol. Cell. Proteomics, and Anal. Chem. Has received the 2012 Young Investigator Award from the International Association for Protein Structure Analysis and Proteomics (IAPSAP), Guangdong Province Outstanding Youth Fund, and Shenzhen Pengcheng Scholar Distinguished Professor. Leads projects including the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Major Research Plan Integration Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Functional Proteomics. Has served as co-executive chairman of the 23rd National Chromatography Academic Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society, co-chairman of the 5th China-Canada Systems Biology Symposium and the 2nd China Human Proteome Organization (CNHUPO) Young Scholars Symposium. Serves as editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry and Chinese Journal of Chromatography, and Guest Editor of Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.

1. Y. H. Mao,‡ Y. Li,‡ Z. D. Zheng,‡ Y. F. Xu,‡ M. Ke, A. He, F. C. Liang, K. R. Zhang, X. Wang, W. N. Gao, R. J. Tian,* All-at-once spatial proteome profiling of complex tissue context with single-cell-type resolution by proximity proteomics, Cell Systems, 2025 May 5:101291.
2. P. W. Huang,‡ W. N. Gao,‡ C. Y. Fu,‡ M. Wang,‡ Y. G. Li,‡ B. Z. Chu, A. He, Y. Li, X. M. Deng, Y. H. Zhang, Q. Kong, J. X. Yuan, H. B. Wang, Y. Shi, D. Gao, R. Y. Qin, T. Hunter, R. J. Tian, Clinical functional proteomics of intercellular signaling in pancreatic cancer, Nature, 2025, 637, 726–735.
3. Y. F. Xu,‡ X. Wang,‡ Y. Li,‡ Y. H. Mao,‡ Y. R. Su, Y. Z. Mao, Y. Yang, W. N. Gao, C. Y. Fu, W. D. Chen, X. T. Ye, F. C. Liang, P. Z. Bai, Y. Sun, S. P. Li, R. L. Xu, R. J. Tian,* Multimodal single cell-resolved spatial proteomics reveal pancreatic tumor heterogeneity, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 10100.