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Prof. Zijian Guo received his PhD degree from the University of Padova and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Birkbeck College, the University of London. He worked also as a research associate at the University of Edinburgh. He joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University as a professor of chemistry in 1999, where he served as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry from 2000 to 2009 and the dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from 2006 to 2014. He received the national science fund for distinguished young scholars in 1999. He is the Changjiang Professor in the same school. He founded Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center (ChemBIC) in Nanjing University and served as the director since 2019. He was elected as the Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. He served as an associated Editor for Coord. Chem. Rev. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles on basic and applied research topics, with a primary focus on fluorescent probes, chemical biology of metals, and metal complex-based antitumor drugs.

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Prof. Zong-Wan Mao earned his Bachelor’s degree at Sichuan University in 1982, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanjing University under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Xia Tang in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Then he joined Prof. Liang-Nian Ji’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Sun Yat-Sen University. Two years later he received an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and studied with Prof. Rudi van Eldik at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He was appointed as an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in 1999, and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He is also the fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has published more than 260 papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Nucleic Acids Res., Adv. Sci., Chem. Sci. and so on. His current research interests include metal drugs, molecule probe and biological image, chemical biology of metal ions and metalloenzyme chemistry.

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Prof. Xiaoda Yang received his B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Yunxiang Ci finally in 1994. Then he joined Prof. Kui Wang’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Beijing Medical University. Two years later he studied with Prof. Ronald T. Borchardt at the University of Kansas, USA. He was appointed as an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2003. He has published more than 150 papers in Adv.Mater., Adv. Func. Mater., Anal. Chem., Biochemistry, SCI. CHINA. and so on. His current research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of pharmacological and/or toxicological actions of metal ions for discovery of inorganic drugs

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Prof. Weijiang He was born in Jiangsu, China in 1969. He received his PhD degree in chemistry from Nanjing University in 2001. After a one year stay as a postdoc in the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces at Potsdam, he joined Nanjing University in 2003 as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 2009. His research interests include the fluorescent sensing and imaging of bioinorganic species, photoactive agents, and luminescent materials. He has published nearly 100 papers in internationally renowned academic journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.; ACS Nano, Chem. Commun.; Chem. Sci. He has been invited to write molecular imaging reviews and special chapters for the Chem. Soc. Rev and Elsevier series.

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Prof. Guangyu Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Zhu’s research interest lies at the interface of chemistry and biology, focusing on anticancer drug development and mechanism. His current research projects include development of photoactivatable anticancer prodrugs, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel metal-based anticancer agents, and development of cancer-specific nanomedicine to conquer cisplatin resistance. His research work has been published in Nature series, Chem, JACS, Angew, PNAS, etc. Currently he is the Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, member of Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry (AsBIC) Steering Committee, and member of Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemists Committee.

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Prof. Wukun Liu was born in 1982 in Hunan, China. He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin (2012) under the supervision of Prof. Ronald Gust and carried out postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University in Prof. Jun O. Liu’s laboratory. In 2017, he began his independent career at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China. His current research interests are mainly focused on medicinal inorganic chemistry, particularly in the design, synthesis and mechanism study of gold(I/III))- and platinum(II)-based anticancer drugs.

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Huaiyi Huang received his BSc (2011) and DPhil (2016) at Sun Yat-Sen University (China). In 2015, he became a joint PhD student in Prof. Gilles Gasser’s group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After that, he was awarded a Newton International Fellowship to carry out research in Prof. Peter J. Sadler’s group at the University of Warwick.

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Prof. Wei Xia received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Peking University in 2006 and Ph. D. in chemical biology from the University of Hong Kong in 2011. Then he joined Prof. Timothy A. Springer’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston. After three years of training, he began as an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University in 2014. He was promoted to a full professor in 2022. He has published a series of papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Chem. Sci. and so on. Prof. Xia was awarded the 2020 National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars for his achievements in the research area of metalloproteins. His current research interests include the inorganic chemical biology of metalloproteins, organometallic anticancer and antimicrobial agents.

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School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University

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Prof. Yuncong Chen, graduated from Nanjing University in 2008 with a BS degree, and got his PhD from NJU in 2014. From August 2014 to July 2018, he did his postdoctoral research at HKUST. Since September 2018, he joined School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Nanjing University as an associate professor. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, including Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Mater. Horiz., ACS Nano. His research interest include fluorescence imaging of biological species and microenvironments, smart photo-theranostics agents. He received the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Youth Fund in 2021. He is currently serve as a member of the Young Editorial committee of Exploration.

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Yu Chen was born in Feb 1983. He is an associate professor in the School of Chemistry at Sun Yat-Sen University. He received his doctor’s degree in chemical biology from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2010 with Prof. Liangnian Ji and Prof. Hui Chao. During 2010-2014, he conducted postdoctoral work in the School of Life Sciences at Sun Yat-Sen University with Prof. Anlong Xu. His current research interest is precision chemical intervention in cancer. He focused on using metal complexes as building blocks to achieve microenvironment response, light-driven therapy, and drug-resistant tumour suppression. He is the author of about 80 SCI publications (including Coord. Chem. Rev., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Biomaterials) with an H-index of 39.

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Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University

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Prof. Hong Liang has devoted himself to Chemistry research and teaching in western China since he got his doctoral degree in Nankai University in 1991. In scientific research, he has so far led more than 30 projects and programs, including one Key National Natural Science Fund Project, three 973 pre-special programs, and seven National Natural Science Fund Projects. Among over 400 papers he published in the SCI key journals like Nat. Commun., Coord. Chem. Rev., JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Med. Chem., Small, Chem. Comm., Eur. Chem. J., Eur. J. Med. Chem.,Mol. Pharm., Inorg. Chem., Anal. Chem., J. Inorg. Biochem., and his papers have been cited for about 10，000 times in SCI journals, and H-index is 49. Furthermore, he has possessed more than 50 authorized invention patents in China. For his outstanding academic achievements, he was awarded quite a few prizes and honorary titles, such as, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry(FRSC), Editorial Board Member for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry(JIB)，Journal of Natural Medicines Research(JNMR), and so on..

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State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resource, Guangxi Normal University