Zhao Lichun, male, Han, from Changchun, Jilin, PhD, is a professor and master's and doctoral supervisor, a former postdoctoral fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University, a member of the 33rd China Postdoctoral Science and Technology Service Group and a researcher at the Guangxi Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base. His honours include being selected among the first national Young Qihuang Scholars, National Youth Post Expert, the Hong Kong Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, Guangxi Distinguished Scholar, the second level of Guangxi's New Century “Ten-Hundred-Thousand Talents Project”, the Guangxi Youth May Fourth Medal, Guangxi (Outstanding) Youth Post Expert and the 14th Guangxi Youth Science and Technology Award; he leads a high-level innovation team of Guangxi universities and is a senior researcher and Deputy Secretary-General of the National Institute of Regional Development and Reform. He has served as Executive Vice Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine and Director of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Chinese Materia Medica, and is currently Director of the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Medicine–Food Homologous Resources and Executive Deputy Director of the Guangxi Engineering Research Center of Zhuang and Yao Medicine.

He is a reviewer for the National Science and Technology Awards, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Taishan Scholars programme of Shandong and Guangxi science and technology projects, an innovation and entrepreneurship mentor of the Guangxi Department of Education, a health expert of the Guangxi Development Strategy Research Society, a member of the Guangxi standardization expert pool and of the Food Safety Risk Assessment Expert Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Prof. Zhao works on basic research and product development of Chinese and ethnic medicines and on rubidium minerals in neurodegenerative diseases. He has led or played a major role in more than 40 projects, including international cooperation projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, NSFC projects and key science and technology projects of Guangxi. He has published five books and nearly 200 papers (more than 50 in SCI journals) and holds 50 national patents. As a principal contributor he has received second and third prizes of the Guangxi Science and Technology Progress Award, a second prize of the Jilin Natural Science Award, a second prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the China Association of Chinese Medicine and the China Industry–University–Research Cooperation Innovation Award.

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