Current Chinese Science

Dr Jianguo Fang is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University. He has received his Doctorate in Organic Chemistry. From 2003 to 2008, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Northwestern University, Evanston and the Burnham Institute, USA. His main research fields are chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. His current interest focuses on Mechanisms of biological redox regulation and small molecules targeting cellular redox network as therapeutic agents and tools. He is a key member of the organic chemistry innovation group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2006, he won the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Gansu Province. He has more than 90 publications in academic journals.

Xiao-Jiang Hao obtained a Master’s Degree of Science from Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1985, and a Doctor’s Degree in Pharmacy from Kyoto University, in 1990. He was promoted to a full professor at KIB in 1994 and served as the Deputy Director/Director of KIB from 1997 to 2005. His research studies aim towards natural product chemistry and bioactivity. He has published more than 600 peer-reviewed SCI papers.

Dr. Lei Zhang is an Associate Professor at School of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, China. He obtained a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. From 2019 to 2020, he studied at the University of Michigan as a visiting scholar. His research focused on the molecular simulation, synthesis and activity assay of novel HDAC, APN and PARP inhibitors. His research work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Foundation of Shandong Province, and Science and technology support plan for youth innovation in universities of Shandong Province.

Dr. Jianqiang Xu is active as an Associate Professor in Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, China. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Qing Yang. From Jan. 2009 to Sept. 2014, he received his postdoctoral research training with Professor Elias S.J. Arnér at MBB of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2015, Dr. Xu started his independent research career. Currently, he mainly focuses on selenium biology and chemical biology, e.g. selenoproteins in relation to human health and small molecule drugs to cure human disease.

Dr. Hakim Manghwar received his Ph.D. from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, in 2019. He completed his postdoc from the South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, in 2021. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang, China. His current research involves the functional characterization and molecular mechanism of different genes against abiotic stresses in plants. Till now, he has published several SCI papers in well-reputed international journals, such as Frontiers in Plant Science, Chemosphere, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Agronomy, BIOCELL, Advanced Science, Trends in Plant Science, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, and Journal of Plant Pathology.