Dr. Dong Sun | Depression | Research Excellence Award

Jilin University | China

Dong Sun is an Associate Professor at Jilin University with advanced training in neuroscience and a strong international research background. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience from Northeast Normal University, China, and completed postdoctoral training at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, USA. His laboratory employs mouse models and integrates cutting-edge methodologies including stereotaxic intracerebral injection, chemogenetics, viral circuit tracing, behavioral analyses, high-throughput sequencing, and cellular and molecular biochemical techniques to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms of anxiety disorders, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease. He has led and contributed to several nationally and provincially funded research projects and has published extensively in high-impact journals such as PNAS, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Neuroscience, Cell Death and Disease, and Cell and Bioscience. His scholarly output has received significant academic attention, reflected by a strong citation record. Dong Sun is also the author of the textbook Basic Biology Experiment. A major contribution of his work is the identification of Adcy8 as a critical protective factor in depression, revealing a hippocampus-specific molecular pathway that regulates neuronal excitability and glutamatergic transmission. His discovery of the Adcy8–TIP39–PTH2R signaling axis provides a promising therapeutic framework for mood disorders. He is an active member of both the Society for Neuroscience and the Chinese Society for Neuroscience.

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