Lixin Zhang#
| Membership Number: | 6843 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://zhanglab.top/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0894-9520 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016.06 - present Full Professor, Director of State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Deputy Dean, School of Biotechnology, East China University of Science and Technology
- 2006.05 - 2016.05 Deputy Director of CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology & Immunology, Inaugural Director of Drug Discovery Center for Tuberculosis, Director and Full Professor, Center of Microbial drug discovery, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- 2006.05 - 2007.05 Visit Professor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- 2004.01 - 2006.04 Full Professor and Head for Laboratory of Marine Microbial Natural Products, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 2004.01 - 2006.04 Co-founder, President, started up a biotech company for synergistic drug, SynerZ Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Lexington, MA, USA
- 2001.10 - 2003.12 Section Head of Drug Discovery, Cetek, Inc. Marlborough, MA., USA
- 1999.01 - 2001.10 Founding Scientist II - Senior Scientist, Microbia, Inc. Cambridge, MA., USA
- 1994.12 - 1998.12 Postdoctoral Fellow – Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA., USA
- 1990.09 -1994.10 Ph. D. candidate, Dept. of Microbiology, Inst. of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China
- 10. 1986.09 - 1990.06 B.S., National Key Laboratory for Microbial Biotechnology, Shandong University, P. R. China
Fields of Scholarship
- Intelligent bio-manufacturing
- Chemical biology
- Microbial drug discovery
- Synthetic biology
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2028 Innovation Equipment Award, The National Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- 2022 - 202）China Scholarship Council, Collaboration Grant Awards (with Professor Jason Micklefield, University of Manchester, UK)
- 2022 Silver Award, Innovation Teams, United Nations industrial and economic development organization
- 2019 - presentFirst Ambassador of Federation of European Microbiological Societies in China (2 terms)
- 2016 Scientific Advisory Board member, the EU-FP7 framework StrepSynth project (https://www.strepsynth.eu
)
- 2013 - 2018Exterior Review Committee member, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, UK
- 2016 Evaluation Committee member, 'ERC Advanced Grant - 2016'(http://erc.europa.eu/remote-referees)
- Dec. 9. 2017 Wuxi Apptec Life Chemistry Research Award, National Guest House, Beijing, China
- 2016 International Collaboration ERC Grant Awards (with Professor Jason Micklefield, University of Manchester), The Royal Society of UK
- 2016 National Science and Technology Progress Award
- 2014 Chair, Tony B. Award Judging Panel
- 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Roche Chinese Young Investigator Awardee
- 2013 - 2018Ambassador of American Society for Microbiology in China
- 2012 National 973 Basic Research Award, China. （2012）
- 2011 National Distinguished Young Scientist Award, China. （2011）
- 2011 Excellent Award, "One-Hundred Talent Program" Final Evaluation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. （2011）
- 2010 Outstanding mentorship Awards, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Excellent hundred talents, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2007 The New Century National “Bai Qian Wan” Talent Project Award
- 1996 China's National award for the first six people who contributed most to the scale-up of high yield production of Vitamin C from an engineered strain
