Hong Guofan (; born December 1938), or Guo-Fan Hong, is a Chinese molecular biologist and professor of the

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences are a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai, established on July 3, 1999. When it was created, it was one of four basic science research institutions of China. The organi ...

. He served as Director of the National Center for Gene Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is an academician of the CAS and of The World Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Hong was born in December 1938 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1964 and worked at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry afterwards. On the recommendations of professors

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and

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, Hong became a research fellow under Nobel laureate

Frederick Sanger Frederick Sanger (; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was an English biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other p ...

at Cambridge University's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1979. He returned to China after Sanger's retirement in 1983. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. Hong's research is focussed on DNA and genome science. He designed the "rapid and accurate BAC-fingerprinting-anchoring strategy", which facilitated the BAC-config mapping of the rice genome. For his contributions he was awarded the

Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (HLHL, ) is a Hong Kong-based non-government organisation which annually bestows prizes upon Chinese scientists. It was established on 30 March 1994, with funds donated from the charitable foundations of Ho Sin Han ...

in life sciences.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hong, Guofan 1938 births Living people Academics of the University of Cambridge Biologists from Zhejiang Chinese molecular biologists Fudan University alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientists from Ningbo TWAS fellows