Biography:
Congqiang ZHANG received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 in a joint program between the National University of Singapore and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later joined Biotransformation Innovation Platform, A*STAR, Singapore as a founding member in 2015. He is now a PI in A*STAR leading a team working on multiple academic and industrial projects. His expertise is metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, discovery and biosynthesis of natural products and industrial biotechnology. He has published over 30 prestigious papers and filed 11 international patents (2 are licensed) on the industrial production of valuable terpenoids including carotenoids and apocarotenoids.
Title : Microbes-enabled sustainable biomanufacturing of food, chemical and medicine