Recently, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has announced that Professor Wu Jie, Director of the Brain Function and Disease Laboratory of Shantou University Medical College, was elected as the fellow of RSA with his outstanding achievements in the field of neuroscience.

Professor Wu Jie was admitted to the Medical Department of Xuzhou Medical University in 1978 and received his Bachelor of Medicine degree with honors in 1983. He then studied for a master's degree and a doctorate in physiology at the Sun Yat-sen University Zhongshan School of Medicine under the supervision of renowned physiologist Professor Chen Peixi, and received his doctorate in 1990. Since then, Professor Wu Jie has completed postdoctoral research at Tohoku University in Japan and the University of New Mexico in the United States, and has published a number of high-quality research papers.

During his career, Professor Wu Jie worked as a teaching assistant at Xuzhou Medical University (1983-1985) and as a lecturer and associate professor at Sun Yat-sen Medical College (1990-1993), where he was involved in teaching and research. In 1998, he joined the famous Barrow Neurological Institute in the United States, where he worked with a number of famous scientists, successively serving as assistant professor, associate professor, and in 2009 promoted to full professor and laboratory director. During Barrow's tenure, his team achieved remarkable scientific results, publishing more than 100 academic papers and receiving more than $7 million in research funding. In 2016, Professor Wu Jie was introduced into Shantou University Medical School as a distinguished professor, and established the Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, serving as the director of the laboratory. He has made contributions in talent training and scientific research. His research fields are mainly in the neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and nicotine addiction, etc. He has published nearly 200 SCI papers. The quote is more than 10000 times and the H-Index is 54.

Professor Wu Jie was selected as one of the world's Top 2% scientists in 2022 (Stanford University and Elsevier Database, 6^th edition); he has 4 US patents and 4 Chinese patents. He has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the first prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the Chinese Physiological Society Zhang Xijun Foundation Outstanding Young physiological Paper Award and the International HH Research Innovation Award. He is currently deputy editor of Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (APS).