First of all, Prof. Zheng-Rong Lu gave a lecture with the title of “Engineering Biomolecules for Biomedical Imaging and Drug Delivery” in the building of Biotechnology. The lecture was chaired by Prof. Song Xue. Prof Zhaochao Xu and more than 30 researchers participated in the lecture. Zheng-Rong Lu introduced their works on the engineering biomolecules of biomedical imaging and drug delivery as well as their applications in translational medicine field, with the emphasis on the early diagnosis of small tumor tissue with tumor-targeting functional molecules. The recent research progress of multifunctional gene carriers on gene silence and tumor therapy was also introduced. After the presentation, he held a heated discussion with the participants. In addition, Zheng-Rong Lu awarded Prof. Mingqian Tan a certificate of “the Elliot Lasser Award” for the best scientific presentation on behalf of organization committee of “Contrast Media Research symposium-2013”, which was held in Beijing last year with more than 40 years of history. After the lecture, Zheng-Rong Lu visited Group 1802 and Group 18T2 of Biotechnology division and held in-depth discussion on the future cooperation.
Zheng-Rong Lu is the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor at Case Western Reserve University USA and has co-authored 130 journal articles including Nature Biotechnology etc. He has been selected as the editorial board member of many journals such as Molecular Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Research and ISRN Biomaterials. He is now the judge of the molecular imaging and probes developments group of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of USA. In 2013, he was awarded as Oversea Review Experts of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
“KuanCheng Wang Oversea Review Expert Program” of Chinese Academy of Science is aimed at the invitation of the oversea experts to participate the consulting and review the development of strategy, major project of science and technology approval, high-level talents appraisal, scientific research institute assessment and major award evaluation etc. (Text by Yang Liu/Photo by Han Liao).