On October 15, 2016, the "2016 Qiu Shi Award Presentation Ceremony" was held in Ying Jie Exchange Center, Peking University, sponsored by the Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science and Technology Foundation. 2 winners for "Qiu Shi Award for Outstanding Scientist" and 10 for "Qiu Shi Award for Outstanding Young Scholars" received their awards at the ceremony. Yang Jing, from IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Science, Peking University, won the 2016 "Qiu Shi Award for Outstanding Young Scholars" at this event.

Yang Jing, born in 1981 in Beijing, graduated from the School of Life Sciences Peking University in 2003, and received his Bachelor of Science degree. In 2004, He went to study at Southwestern Medical Center University of Texas in the United States, supervised by Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, and received his Doctor of Science degree in 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he was engaged in postdoctoral research with Genentech Corporation and Dr. Tessier-Lavigne research group at the Rockefeller University in the United States. Currently, he is researcher at IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Science and Institute of Life Sciences, Peking University, researcher at Peking University – Tsinghua University Center for Life Sciences, Supervisor of PhD students, and winner of 2015 "Outstanding Youth Science Foundation" funded by National Natural Science Fund Committee.

Dr Yang Jing focused on molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. With his expertise in neurobiology, biochemistry and metabolic physiology, his research group focuses on a number of important issues in the field of neurodegenerative diseases: (1) in the condition of many degenerative diseases, how neurons and axons of neurons respond to injury? (2) in the damaged neurons and axons of neurons, how the disease process respond to change in the balance of metabolism? (3) in the condition of degenerative disease, how non-neuron cells involved in the disease process? So far Dr. Yang Jing has made remarkable achievements in the frontier areas of neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic regulation mechanism, and published more than 10 scientific papers in international academic journals including Cell and Neuron.