Baoli ZhuTechnology and Applications Advisory Board
Dr. Zhu received his PhD from the Beijing Agricultural University in 1992, where he created an expression vector for porcine growth hormone in E. coli.
He moved on to the study of human genomics and successfully isolated the erythropoietin and insulin genes and was able to induce expression of both genes in various mammalian cell lines. He continued his pioneering work in cloning and manipulating expression systems, which eventually led him to a research position at BACPAC, at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, where he was a contributor to many projects including ENCODE, the Human Genome Project, the Zebrafish Genome Project and the Chimpanzee Genome Project.
In 2005, he moved back to China where he now serves as Professor in comparative genomics and metagenomics at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studying the relationship between copy number changes in cancer.
