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Xu ZhiHong, a plant biologist and an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997) and the Third World Academy of Sciences (1995), graduated from Department of Biology, Peking University in 1965. He is professor of the Peking University School of Life Sciences and the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently the President of the China National Committee of Man and Biosphere, UNESCO, and a member of the National Consultative Committee, Ministry of Education, China. He served as the Director of the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology (1991–1994), Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 2002, and the President of Peking University from 1999 to 2008. His research interests include plant hormone and development, plant cell culture and agricultural biotechnology.
Zhu ZuoYan, a geneticist and an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997), graduated from Department of Biology, Peking University in 1965. He later joined the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and served as its Director from 1995 to 1999. In the 1970s, he succeeded, as a co-principal investigator, in fish cloning between different genera. In the early 1980s, he started a new research area in fish genetic engineering by producing the first batch of 2.3–3.4-fold fast-growing transgenic fish. He was elected as a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1998. He served as a Vice President of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and President of China International Association for Promotion of Science and Technology. He is now a professor of Peking University School of Life Sciences and the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Editor General of Science China and Science Bulletin.
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Xu, Z., Zhu, Z. Celebrating 90 years of Peking University School of Life Sciences (1925–2015). Sci. China Life Sci. 58, 1055–1056 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-015-4963-8
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