Prof.Zuhong Lu

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undefinedProfessor and Doctoral Supervisor in Biomedical Engineering

undefinedSoutheast University

undefinedzhlu@seu.edu.cn

Presentation Title: Challenges and Opportunities of Gene Sequencing Technology

Biography: Zuhong Lu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in Biomedical Engineering at Souteast University. He has been selected for several national and provincial high-level talent programs, including the Distinguished Professor of the Cheung Kong Scholars Program, the Cross-Century Talent Program of the State Education Commission, and the Jiangsu “333 Project”.

Prof. Lu holds key positions such as Secretary-General of the Biomedical Electronics Division of the Chinese Institute of Electronics and has served as an expert in the Frontier Biotechnology Theme Expert Group of the National 863 Program.

In teaching, he has received the Baosteel Education Fund Outstanding Teacher Special Prize and the National Model Teacher award. His research, supported by major grants including the National 863 Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Innovative Research Group Project, focuses on pioneering work in bioelectronics, DNA sequencing technologies, and biochips. He led the development of the AG100 high-throughput genome sequencer, which was used in the "Yan Huang 1" genome resequencing project. He has published over 400 SCI papers and holds more than 30 authorized Chinese national invention patents.