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Yun-Dong Wu was born in 1957 in Liyang, Jiangsu Province. He received his BS degree in 1982 from Lanzhou University, obtained his PhD degree in 1986 from the University of Pittsburg (USA), and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the chemistry faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1992. He was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2010, He moved to Peking University. Yun-Dong Wu’s research interests cover computational chemistry, physical organic chemistry, biochemistry, advanced materials and drug design. His recent works focus on reaction mechanism, force-field development, peptides/proteins structures, protein-protein interactions, and peptides-derived drug discovery and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Zhi-Xiang Yu was born in Ezhou, Hubei Province in 1969. He obtained his BS degree from Wuhan University (1991), MS degree from Peking University (1997), and PhD degree from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2001). After three-year postdoctoral study at the University of California, Los Angeles (2001–2004), he joined Peking University as an associate professor and was promoted to a full professor in 2008. His main research interests are to apply computational organic chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry to study reaction mechanisms, develop new reactions and catalysts, and synthesize natural and non-natural products. In 2008, he received the Thieme Synlett/Synthesis Journal Award, the Young Chemist Award from the Chinese Chemical Society & the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Asian Core Program Lectureship Award of the Asian Cutting-Edge Organic Chemistry programs. He was one of winners for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2008. In 2011, he won the Chinese Chemical Society-SciFinder Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and the Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Award.
Lei Liu was born in 1977 in Chuzhou city of Anhui Province. He obtained his BS degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. In 2004 he obtained his PhD degree from the Chemistry Department of Columbia University. From 2004 to 2007 he was employed as a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Research Institute. He joined Tsinghua University in 2007. His current research focuses on protein chemical synthesis and its applications.
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Wu, YD., Yu, ZX. & Liu, L. Preface. Sci. China Chem. 55, 1989–1990 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-012-4760-1
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