Xuhong Qian is a professor of bioorganic chemistry and engineering, and President of the East China University of Science and Technology. He has previously acted as president for the Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE), and is currently a member of the Advisory Commission for Chemistry, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and an Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Zhenjiang Zhao has been an Associate Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology since 2010. His research interests focus on medicinal chemistry, enzyme inhibitors and agrochemicals. Yufang Xu is a Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the East China University of Science and Technology in 1994 and from 1999 to 2001 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan. Her research interests focus on small organic molecules to regulate the bioprocess. Jianhe Xu is the Professor and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology and is the Cheungkong Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1987, finished his PhD from East China University of Science and Technology and Kyoto University in 1995.