Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize 2025 – About the Winner (Dr. Zhiwen Wang)
Zhiwen Wang
Affiliation: Ningxia University, China
Research title for the award: Construction and characteristics analysis of microbial cell factories for production of bio-chemicals
Prof. Zhiwen Wang is a Professor in the College of Life Sciences, Ningxia University, China. He is also an Adjunct Professor at School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, China. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the Shandong Agricultural University and then his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Engineering at the Tianjin University, China. Prof. Zhiwen Wang’s research areas include: genome-scale metabolic network models, genome editing and synthetic biology components, microbial cell factory. He has authored more than 100 SCI(E) journal articles, other numerous publications and patents. His work has been published in top journals, including Nature Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering, Advanced Science, AIChE Journal, which has been cited >3900 times with the h-index over 35 to date.
[Message as a prize winner]
I am extremely happy and deeply honored to have received the 2025 Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize from the Society for Biotechnology, Japan (SBJ). I would like to give my sincere thanks to the nominator Prof. Chong Zhang and all the committee members for giving me this opportunity. I must express my profound gratitude to my mentors, Prof. Xueming Zhao and Professor Xunli Liu, introducing me to this fascinating field and always supporting me. My sincere appreciation also goes to my family, colleagues, collaborators, postdoctoral researchers, and students for their assistance and support in my work. The honourable prize of SBJ would encourage me to continuously work in my research area and devote myself in collaboration between China and Japan as well as the world.
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