Bio Nano Consulting expands into China
16 Dec 2010
Bio Nano Consulting (BNC), specialists in bio and
nanotechnology partnerships between the academic and industrial sectors,
has signed up two prominent academics based at China’s Tsinghua
University to its pool of consultants.
Professors George Guo-Qiang Chen and Quan-Shui Zheng contribute
decades of microbial and nano technological expertise. With
over twenty years R&D experience in microbial physiology, microbial
production and applications, Professor Chen has developed 23
patented technologies with a further 29 patents pending. His
technologies have been supplied to companies specialising in mass
production of microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA).
To date, he has published more than 160 international review papers
with at least 2,800 citations (H-Index 29) and in excess of 730
total impact factors. He has specialised in microbial metabolic
engineering and biomaterials since joining Tsinghua University in
1986. After receiving his PhD from Graz University (Austria) in
1989, he conducted post doctorate research at the University of
Nottingham, UK and the University of Alberta in Canada,
respectively.
Currently, Professor Chen is editor-in-chief for the newly
launched journal Frontiers in Biotechnology, associate
editor-in-chief for Microbial Cell Factories, and editor or
editorial board member on a number of other biotechnology-related
journals.
Dr. Zheng, has been Professor at the Department of Engineering
Mechanics in Tsinghua University since 1993, and is the current
Departmental Chair. He is also the founder and director of the
Centre for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNMM) at Tsinghua University.
He received his PhD from the institution in 1989.
His research interests include nanomechanics, nanodevices, micro
and nano-bionics, mechanics of heterogeneous materials and damage
mechanics. Additionally, his focus includes constitutive equations,
including composites, polymers, biomaterials, teeth, polycrystals
and ceramics, the theory of representations for tensors and tensor
functions, mechanics of anisotropic behaviour and rational
mechanics.
He is a concurrent Professor at Monash University,
Australia, and Nanchang University, China. Moreover, Professor Zheng
has and continues to hold a plethora of distinguished academic
positions including Royal Society Fellow at University of
Nottingham, Europe Fellow and Visiting Professor at Institute de
Mécanique de Grenoble, France, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at
Technical University Aachen, Germany, and Professor at Jiangxi
Polytechnic University, China.
Furthermore, Dr. Zheng is editor-in-Chief of
ActaMechanicaSolida Sinica and a board member of nine
international journals.
Commenting on the new consultants, BNC’s CEO, Dr David Sarphie,
commented: “We are delighted to expand into China as this forms an
integral part of our international growth strategy. Indeed we are
very pleased to welcome Professors George Guo-Qiang Chen and
Quan-Shui Zheng to our scientific pool. They bring further high
level scientific expertise to our microbiological and nano
technological service offering. Consequently, we look forward to
providing access to their extensive research and development skills
and running projects for the benefit of the Chinese life science
market.”