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Dr. Nan Qin is a professor of Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University and the founder of Shanghai Realbio Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, USA in 2008. Afterwards, he joined BGI in Shenzhen as the director of department of microbial genomics. In 2011, he joined Zhejiang University School of Medicine as an associated professor and doctoral supervisor in Collaborative Innovation Center of Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. He won the title of “Shanghai One Thousand Talents Scheme” in 2017 and was recognized as one of Grand Challenges 2015-Young Scientists by Ministry of Science and Technology and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Qin is specialized in gut microbiome in infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancer immunotherapy and he has published more than 30 papers in Nature, Science, PLoS Biol and other top academic journals since 2009.
Dr. Xiuzhu Dong is a professor of Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Microbiology, Wageningen University of the Netherlands in 1994, and did her postdoctoral research in University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA from 1995 to 1996. Since then Dr. Dong has set up her research laboratory of anaerobes in the Institute of Microbiology, CAS. She was the director of State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources from 2008 to 2017, and became the deputy director general of the institute in 2011. Dr. Dong was awarded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2000 and elected to the One Hundred Talents Program of CAS in 2014. She held the chief scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) granted by Ministry of Science and Technology of China from 2004 to 2009. Dr. Dong is engaged in anaerobic bacteria and archaea that function in anaerobic degradation of organics to produce methane, and specialized in their physiology and antioxidative mechanisms. She has published more than 90 papers in Nucleic Acids Res, ISME J, Mol Microbiol, Environ Microbiol, Appl Environ Microbiol J Bacterial.
Liping Zhao is currently the Eveleigh-Fenton Chair of Applied Microbiology at Rutgers University and Distinguished Professor of Microbiology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is a senior editor of the ISME J and associate editor of the journal Microbiome. He is a fellow of American Academy of Microbiology. He is a senior fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He serves on Scientific Advisory Board for AGA Center for Microbiome Research and Education. His team has pioneered the approach of applying metagenomics-metabolomics integrated tools and dietary intervention for systems understanding and predictive manipulation of gut microbiota to improve human metabolic health. Following the logic of Koch’s postulates, Liping has found that an endotoxin-producing opportunistic pathogen isolated from an obese human gut can induce obesity in germfree mice. Their clinical trials published in Science and EBioMedicine showed that dietary modulation of gut microbiota can significantly alleviate metabolic diseases including a genetic form of obesity in children and type 2 diabetes in adults. The Science magazine featured a story on how he combines traditional Chinese medicine and gut microbiota study to understand and fight obesity (Science 336: 1248).
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Qin, N., Dong, X. & Zhao, L. Microbiome: from community metabolism to host diseases. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 741–743 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9335-8
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