Professor Deng Zixin is a famous microbiologist and a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now the dean of School of Pharmacy at Wuhan University and director of Wuhan Institute of Biotechnology. He became the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, the member of Third World Academy of Sciences in 2006, the member of American Academy of Microbiology in 2010.

From 2001 to 2003, Professor Deng is the visiting professor of Cornell University in the United States and the editor or the member of editorial committee for the famous journals such as Chinese Science Bulletinand Process Biochemistry. He is also the member of GIM-IC.

Professor Deng’s research focus is Biochemistry and Molecular Biologysynthesized by actinomycetes genetics and antibiotics. He has taken the lead in over 30 national and international projects and published more than 100 theses in academic journals home and abroad.