Wong obtained his BSc (1973) from the Chinese U. of Hong Kong and PhD (1976) from U. College London. After 2 years as a postdoc at Harvard, he returned to U. College London. From 1980 to 1982, he did research at the Shanghai Inst. of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), The Chinese Acad. of Sciences (CAS). In 1983, he joined the Chinese U. of Hong Kong and is now Emeritus Prof. of Chemistry and Research Professor. He also chairs the Management Committee, Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis, SIOC, CAS. His research interests are concerned with syntheses and studies of natural and non-natural molecules, as well as synthetic methodologies. He has published more than 275 research papers, invited reviews and book chapters. He is member of CAS and the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, and the winner of Humboldt, Croucher and Ramsay fellowships and the National Natural Sciences Prize of China.

Liu is prof. and head of the Cancer Therapy Lab. at the Shanghai Inst. of Bioch. and Cell Biology (SIBCB), Chinese Acad. of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from Nankai University, China, 1952 and work in USA 1983-4. He has worked in many fields of mol. biol., incl. interferon, total synthesis of yeast Ala-tRNA, genetic engineering and is now focused on cancer biotherapy and innovated the “Cancer Targeting Gene-Viro-Therapy (CTGVT)”. By the use of two genes, the CTGVT-DG, all the Xenograft tumors in nude mice can be completely eliminated; He co-discovered a “Super Interferon-I (sIFN-I)”, with excellent cancer therapeutic effects. He has published over 400 papers, compiled 15 volume collected papers of Xin-Yuan Liu and received over 40 awards. He is an academician of CAS and foreign academician of the Natl. Acad. of Sciences of Ukraine.

Chen is professor at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU). He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from SYSU in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 1989. He was elected to Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He served as dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at SYSU and vice-president of the Chinese Crystallographic Society. His prizes include Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Research (2014), TWAS Prize in Chemistry (2012), Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award (2008), National Natural Science Prize of China (2007), and Distinguished Young Scientist Award by Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation (1999).

Zhu is a distinguished professor of Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing. He served terms as Director of IGG-CAS and State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution. He is an author of more than 300 journal articles. He has pursued several distinct lines of research in paleomagnetism and geodynamics, including geomagnetic field reversal, paleointensity, magnetostratigraphy, and environmental magnetism. For example, his pacesetting work in magnetostratigraphic dating of early human settlements has dated the earliest human occupation in mainland East Asia at ~1.7 Ma, providing new insights into early human evolution. His efforts in exploring destruction of the North China Craton enable a significant advance in the understanding of continental evolution and plate tectonics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, an academician of CAS, and a Fellow of TWAS. He was awarded the National Natural Science Award, the TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences, the Scientific and Technological Progress Prize of HLHL Foundation (Hong Kong), and the Young Scientist Award of China.