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Dr. Jiankang Liu received his BS from Xi’an Jiaotong Unviersity and PhD of Medical Science from Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan. He completed post-doc training in Dr. Bruce Ames laboratory at University of California, Berkeley and worked as a faculty at University of California at Berkeley, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and University of Southern California. Since 2008, Dr. Liu returned China and worked at Xi’an Jiaotong University as Professor and Dean of the School of Life Science and Technology. Currently, he is a Professor and First Dean of the School of Life Sciences, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Qingdao and Xi’an Jiaotong University at Xi’an, China. Dr. Liu’s research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress, and age-/stress-associated diseases with a focus on redox-mitochondrial metabolism and mitoepigenetics. He has published more 280 papers（H-index 82）and was elected as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers for 11 years (2015-2025) and the World Top Scientists from 2019-2025 for both Annual and Life-long Achievements lists.

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Professor Xi Xie is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Sun Yat-sen University, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a leading researcher in the field of intelligent biosensing. Professor Xie earned his bachelor's degree from Sun Yat-sen University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, USA. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He leads a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to developing high-performance, multifunctional minimally invasive biosensing chips and circuit systems (Bio-MEMS), providing critical technological support for the next generation of high-precision biological research instruments and wearable smart devices. He has published over 100 papers in total, including more than 60 as the corresponding author in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials (2025), Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nature Protocols, and Nature Reviews Materials.

He was selected as one of the MIT Technology Review’s "Innovators Under 35" in China for "integrating photoelectric sensing technology with biomedical science to provide cutting-edge tools for biological research and medical diagnosis." He also serves as an Associate Editor for Microsystems & Nanoengineering (Nature Publishing Group, SCI Q1, a leading journal in China's "Action Plan for Excellence in Science and Technology Research").

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Mohamad Fawzi Mahomoodally holds a life sciences degree and is a Harvard University alumnus. He is an extraordinary professor for the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences at North-West University in South Africa.  He is also a visiting professor (China and Vietnam). He was the head of department, TWAS-ROSSA Young Affiliate, member of the Global Young Academy, recipient of the Young Promising Scientist from Mauritius to TWAS/BVA.NXT Biovision 2012, and an ASM Leadership fellow in the USA (2013). He was among the top 25 Young Scientists to attend the ‘Food Future-ICSU meeting in Italy, was nominated as a Young Ambassador member of the Young Leader’s Circle, and Country Ambassador to the American Society for Microbiology. He has authored more than 474 scientific publications and is the recipient of more than 50 fellowships and  travel grants.  He has also been invited as a plenary and keynote speaker to attend and present in international conferences and seminars.  He was invited to ASM-GM (Boston, USA), the ICAAC meeting  (Colorado, USA), and 6 strategic meetings in Washington, USA. He was invited to the Commonwealth Conference  in Bangalore by the Royal Society, UK, and the Young Leader session with Nobel Laureates at the STS Forum, Kyoto/Japan. He is a Fellow of the African Science Leadership Programme, University of Pretoria-South Africa, and fellow of the Novartis Scholarship in 2017. Fawzi is presently the Principal Investigator/co-PI of 10 research grants/interdisciplinary consortium both regionally and internationally. He has organized and instructed  more than 25 international and national workshops and training courses.  Fawzi is the scientific editor, reviewer, and book proposal evaluator of  more than 100 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, and served on or chaired  more than 50 national and international committees.