Xun Xu
CEO, BGI Group; President, BGI Research, CN
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Biography
Dr. Xun Xu is the chief executive officer of BGI, Director of BGI-Research. His research focuses on the sequencing technologies, single-cell sequencing and applications of sequencing technologies in precision medicine and biodiversity.
He has authored or co-authored 242 scientific papers published in top peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science, and Cell. Dr. Xu has led 15 major national scientific research projects and several international projects.
Dr. Xu is also nominated as Vice-Chairman of International Organization for Standardization/Biotechnology Committee (ISO/TC276), and Director-at-Large–China of International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER).