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Bing Zhao is the Deputy Director of the institute of Organoid Technology at Nanchang University. Previously he was a Tenured Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Fudan University in Shanghai, as well as having post-doctoral research positions at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre in the US. Professor Zhao completed his undergraduate study at the China Agricultural University in Beijing, before completing his PhD at the Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences.

Professor Zhao conducts research on the mechanisms of tissue stem cell fate determination innovative strategies for organoid cultivation. In the recent five years, he published a series of research papers as the corresponding author in renowned journals including Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, Protein & Cell and Cell Metabolism. These contributions significantly advance the fields of regenerative biology and organoid technology. The representative findings have been highlighted in interviews by Nature News, featured on the official Nature website, and recognized in prestigious review journals such as Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. He was appointed as a Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program of China.

Professor Zhao is the founder of Organoid Center at Fudan University (2018), and Institute of Organoid Technology at Nanchang University (2023). He committed to advancing the standardization of organoid technology while exploring novel medical applications. As a main contributor or participant, he edited the guidelines for multiple key programs related to organoid research at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, including the National Key Research and Development Program in the 14th Five-Year Plan, the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support Program, and Key Program of Shanghai and Key Program of Guangdong Province. As a member of the Standardization Committee of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology, he led the development of multiple standards and cultivation norms for organoids, authored the Chinese expert consensus on organoid quality control and hosted the Annual Organoid Conference of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology. He contributed to promoting the in-depth application of organoid technology in both scientific research and medical fields.