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Bioinorganic chemistry and chemical biology of metals, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Medicinal chemistry of main group elements, Molecular imaging, Metallomics and metallprpoteomics, and systems biology

Biography

Hongzhe Sun obtained his Ph.D from the University of London in 1996 (Birkbeck College). After postdoctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong in 1998 where he is currently a Chair Professor of Chemistry, Norman & Cecilia Yip Professor in Bioinorganic Chemistry, and honorary professor of Pharmacology and Pharmacy as well as Biochemistry. He is the president-elect of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC).

His research interests lie in inorganic chemical biology, metalloproteomics/ metalloproteomics and metals in medicine. He is the recipient of the NSFC Outstanding Young Scholar Award (2005), Croucher Senior Research Fellow (2010), WuXi AppTech Life Science & Chemistry Research Award (2016), UC Berkeley Earl L Muetterties Memorial Lectureship (2018), RGC senior research fellow (2021), AsBIC Outstanding Achievement Award (2022) and RSC Horizon Prize (2023). He is a series editor of Metallobiology (RSC) and editor of J. Biol. Inorg. Chem (Springer), and serves on the editorial board of Metallomics, J. Inorg. Chem. and BioMetals.

Prof. Sun's research interests are centered at chemical biology of metals (e.g. medicinal chemistry of main group elements and new approaches to overcome antimicrobial resistance (AMR)) and antivirus (SARS-CoV-1/2). He has published over 240 papers in international journals including Nat Commun, Nat Mach Intell, Nat Microbiol, PNAS (bio)chemical journals (e.g. Angew. Chem., JACS, JBC), and edited a book entitled “Biological chemistry of arsenic, antimony and bismuth” (Wiley & Sons, 2011).

Activities

Peer review (40 reviews for 24 publications/grants)

Review activity for ACS applied materials & interfaces. (1)
Review activity for ACS infectious diseases. (2)
Review activity for ACS omega. (1)
Review activity for Advanced optical materials (1)
Review activity for Advanced science. (1)
Review activity for Advanced therapeutics. (2)
Review activity for Analytical chemistry. (8)
Review activity for Angewandte Chemie. (2)
Review activity for Biochemistry. (1)
Review activity for Bioconjugate chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Cell systems. (2)
Review activity for Coordination chemistry reviews (1)
Review activity for Current opinion in microbiology. (1)
Review activity for Electrophoresis. (1)
Review activity for Environmental science & technology letters. (1)
Review activity for Inorganic chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Journal of chemical education. (1)
Review activity for Journal of the American Chemical Society. (5)
Review activity for Molecular psychiatry. (1)
Review activity for Nature cancer. (1)
Review activity for Nature chemistry. (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (2)
Review activity for Nature microbiology. (1)
Review activity for Nature sustainability. (1)