EDUCATION

1989-1993                   Ph.D., Queen’s University, Belfast, with Professor Tony McKervey

1983-1986                   M.Sc., East China University of Science & Technology

1979-1983                   B.Sc., East China University of Science & Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-                           Professor & Senior PI, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School

2002-2015                   Deputy Director of Institute of Materia Medica, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

1998-2002                   Research Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong of University 

1994-1998                   ROPA Fellow, Nottingham University, with Professor Gerry Pattenden 

1993-1994                   Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast, with Professor Tony McKervey

1986-1989                   Lecturer, East China University of Science & Technology

HONORS AND AWARDS

2015                            Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015

2014                            Xiaoyu Hu Memorial Award

2012                            WuXi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award

2012                            Asian Core Program Lectureship Award 2012 (To deliver lectures in Japan)

1994-1998:                  ROPA Fellowship (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K.)

1991                            Prize Winner of “The Pfizer Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium”

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

Associate Editor (2013-2017) “Frontiers in Chemical Biology” 

Member of Senior Editorial Board of "American Journal of Cancer Research"

Member of Editorial Board of "Journal of Pharmaceutics"

Member of Editorial Board of "Dataset Papers in Sciences"

Member of Editorial Board of "Natural Products Chemistry & Research"

Member of Editorial Board of "Chemical Biology Letters"