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Editor-in-Chief: (2023.3-) Hualan Chen Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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Hualan Chen is a professor in the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. She is currently the director of the State Key Laboratory of Animal Disease Control and Prevention, the director of the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory of China, the WOAH Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, and the FAO Animal Influenza Reference Center. Her research focus is the study of influenza virus and the development of vaccines against this virus. She performs extensive basic research to understand the evolution and the genetic basis of the virulence and host range of avian influenza viruses, and has published over 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Science, Cell Research, Cell Host & Microbe, and PNAS. She established several platforms for avian influenza vaccine development, and nearly 300 billion doses of the vaccines developed by her have been used to control H5N1 and H7N9 influenza viruses in poultry in China and other countries. She was selected as one of “the 10 people that mattered in 2013” by Nature, and was awarded the 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards. She was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017 and a member of the World Academy of Sciences for developing countries in 2018. |
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former Editor-in-Chief: (2022-2023.2) Hanzhong Wang former Vice President of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
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Prof. Wang, a rapeseed geneticist, currently serves as the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), chief scientist of the National Rapeseed Industry Technology Innovation System of China, chief leader of the Expert Steering Group for Oil Crops of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, and chief scientist of the Innovation Team of Rapeseed Genetics and Breeding of CAAS. Prof. Wang has presided over 20 national key projects including the "973 Program" in China and won two national-level awards (the Second Prize of National Technology Invention and National Scientific and Technological Progress) and seven 7 provincial and ministerial achievement awards. Prof. Wang has bred 27 new rapeseed varieties, successively achieving three breakthroughs of multi-resistances, high-oil content and high yield, which has been cultivated accumulatively more than 13 million hectares. Prof. Wang has published over 120 articles in the important journals such as Nature Genetics, PNAS, Molecular Plant, and Plant Biotechnology Journal, being widely cited.
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